Noun

(en-noun)

The quality of being inclement

A lack of clemency

Something that is inclement

*{{quote-book, year=1849, author=Edwin Bryant, title=What I Saw in California, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=They are built of rough sticks, covered with bulrushes or grass, in such a manner as to completely protect the inhabitants from all the inclemencies of the weather. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1874, author=Jules Verne, title=The Mysterious Island, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=There had been rain, squalls mingled with snow, hailstorms, gusts of wind, but these inclemencies did not last. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=Charles Sylvester, title=Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The cry of the suffering and dying rings in our ears, as they are dragged from their beds, to be exposed to the inclemencies of the ice-covered sea in an open boat. }}

Noun

The quality of being harsh.

*1891 , (Thomas Hardy), (w, Tess of the d'Urbervilles) , Part 6:

*:And yet these harshnesses' are tenderness itself when compared with the universal '''harshness''' out of which they grow; the ' harshness of the position towards the temperament, of the means towards the aims, of to-day towards yesterday, of hereafter towards to-day.

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*:She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.