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unˈluckily, adv.
[un-1 11. Cf. ON. úlukkuliga.]
1. Unfortunately, unhappily.
Usually in parenthetic or loose construction.
1530Palsgr. 840/1 Onluckely, de grant malheur. a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. ii, Blind Fortune hating sharpe-sighted inventions, made them unluckily to be killed. 1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 92 Darab..most unluckily denyes, and goes on to levy men to support the rebellion. 1673[R. Leigh] Transp. Reh. 128 Unluckily..there has happen'd a prodigious conjunction. 1766Goldsm. Vic. W. xxviii, Unluckily all our money had been laid out..in provisions. 1825J. Neal Bro. Jonathan III. 404 Unluckily for him, the order for pursuit was given too early. 1871Freeman Norm. Conq. IV. xvii. 74 Of the state of things..we unluckily hear nothing.
b. With verbs of happening, succeeding, etc.
c1550Vertuous Scholehous H 6 b, Man feareth that it [sc. matrimony] myght succede vnluckely. 1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. iii. iv. 1 Things haue falne out..vnluckily. 1607― Timon iii. ii. 51 How vnluckily it hapned, that [etc.]. 1711Swift Let. to Abp. King 8 Mar., Nothing could happen so unluckily..as Mr. Harley's death. 1819Shelley Cenci v. i. 12 It has turned out unluckily.
†2. Unsuccessfully, badly. Obs. rare.
a1586Sidney Arcadia i. xvi, Urania, whom a rich knight..had unluckely defended. 1638Junius Paint. Ancients 305 A certain Painter,..who painted cockes most unluckily, gave his boy great charge, to chase the true cockes away from his picture. 1665Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. xx, Many of those young Ladies..are so unluckily Bred,..that [etc.]. |