[f. prec.]
† 1. Inconsolableness. Obs.–1
a. 1639. W. Whateley, Prototypes, I. xxi. (1640), 267. Isaac outlived Josephs selling into Egypt, and was afflicted in Jacobs uncomfortablenesse under that crosse.
1727. Bailey (vol. II.), Inconsolableness, a State of uncomfortableness, or that will not admit of Comfort.
2. The quality or state of causing or involving discomfort.
1677. Miége, Uncomfortableness, l’état triste, ou fâcheux de quêque chose.
1727. Bailey (vol. II.), Uncomfortableness, Uneasiness, Unpleasingness.
1743. Bulkeley & Cummins, Voy. S. Seas, 82. Add to our Uneasiness, the Uncomfortableness of the Climate.
1795. Frances Dillon, in Jerningham Lett. (1896), I. 83. The Uncomfortableness of y[ou]r long absence.
1853. Kane, Grinnell Exp., xxix. (1856), 240. Our abiding-place below has a smoky atmosphere of lamplit uncomfortableness.
1856. Hawthorne, Eng. Note-bks. (1879), I. 379. The vile uncomfortableness of a military life.
3. The fact of feeling uncomfortable.
1828. Lytton, Pelham, II. xxv. There is such a certain uncomfortableness always occasioned to the mind by stillness and mystery united, that [etc.].
1847. Mrs. Sherwood, Fairchild Family, III. ii. 24. Ready to cry from fatigue, sleep, and uncomfortableness.
1872. Huxley, Physiol., VIII. 188. Such are the sensations of uncomfortableness.
