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▪ I. † unˈhappen, a. Obs.
[un-1 7: cf. ON. heppinn fortunate, Norw. uheppen unfortunate; and see unheppen a.]
Unfortunate, miserable, wretched.
13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 573 And al was for þis ilk euel, þat vn-happen glette. 13..St. Erkenwolde 198 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 270 One þe vnhapnest hathel þat euer one erthe ȝode. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. (Rolls) I. 528 Than da by da tha waittit on thair tyme, For to commit that curst vnhappin cryme.
▪ II. unˈhappen, v.
[un-1 14 or un-2 7.]
intr. Of an event, etc.: to be reversed; to become as though it had never occurred. Also trans., to cause not to happen or to have happened.
1805Ann. Rev. III. 270 The past cannot unhappen. 1876Mrs. Whitney Sights & Ins. II. xxxiii. 628 Had I been letting things happen that couldn't unhappen any more, ever? 1975I. Murdoch Word Child 135 All these things did happen. Keeping them secret isn't going to unhappen them. 1980― Nuns & Soldiers iii. 187 It's..so unreal. All this can unhappen. You can unhappen it just by saying we won't speak of it again. |