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▪ I. † unˈhap, n. Obs.
[un-1 12. Cf. ON. úhapp (Icel. óhapp, Norw. dial. uhapp), and wanhap.]
1. Misfortune, mishap.
a1225Ancr. R. 180 Mislikunge wiðuten—ase sicnesse, meseise, scheome, vnhep. c1325Body & Soul 257 in Map's Poems (Camden) 343 What eyleth the, thou grimli gaast? That me thus breidest of myn unhap. c1384Chaucer H. Fame 89 [To] shelde hem fro pouerte and shonde And fro vnhappe and eche disese. 1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy iii. 5099 For of þe cite, sothly, and þe toun, His vnhap were endeles ruyne. c1440Gesta Rom. xxxiii. 129, I have thorow vnhappe slayn a man. c1489Caxton Sonnes of Aymon i. 38 Your sone is ded by grete unhappe. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. 521 This was the ende of yuan, or Owen, of Wales,..slayne by great vnhap and treason. a1586Sidney Arcadia ii. xvi, Sometime to visit that place, where first she was so happy as to see the cause of her vnhap.
2. With pl. A misfortune or mishap.
c1230Hali Meid. 29 Ne mei na worldlich unhap bireauen ham hare weole. a1250Owl & Night. 1267 Naueþ mon no sikerhede Þat he ne may wene & adrede Þat sum vnhap neih him beo. 13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 892 Þay wern wakned..Of on þe vglokest vnhap þat euer on erd suffred. 1390Gower Conf. II. 36 Thei..to the god for helpe criden Of suche unhappes as betyden. c1440York Myst. xviii. 152 That no myscheue on hym betyde, Nor none vnhappe. 1559Mirr. Mag. (1562) A a vj, Al which unhappes that they were not foreseene, I was in fault.
3. attrib. or as adj. = unhappy a.
1509Hawes Past. Pleas. (Percy Soc.) 82 Now all my desteny Unhap and happy, upon you doth growe. Ibid. 137 This unhap love had his mynde so broken.
▪ II. † unˈhap, v. Obs.—1
[f. prec.]
intr. To bring misfortune.
c1560A. Scott Poems xxxiv. 123 Quhair [v.r. For] hurdome ay vnhappis With quenry, canis, and coppis. |