Inclemency

Persons far above the common Level who are thus affected with either of these Extreams; as in a Thermometer, tis only the purest and most sublimated Spirit that is either contracted or dilated by the Benignity or Inclemency of the Season.

The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700

a cruel manner, wasting, spoiling and destroying the Country, burning Houses and defenceless Towns, and exposing the helpless Inhabitants to every Misery from the Inclemency of the Winter, and not only urging Savages to invade the

John Adams autobiography, part 1, "John Adams," through 1776 1961

Want, Cold, and Slavery, and every Ill that human Nature could be try’d withal; yet we who never feel the Inclemency of foreign Climates, that never saw the

The Life of Charlotta Du Pont, an English Lad 1723