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unˈluckiness
[un-1 12: cf. next.]
1. Want of luck; unlucky character or fortune.
1561T. Hoby tr. Castiglione's Courtyer iv. U vij b, You haue better declared the vnluckinesse of yonge men, then the happynesse of olde menn. 1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 227 Black..they call..a type of hell, and unluckinesse. 1673Kirkman Unlucky Citizen A 5 b, Although I had been unlucky, yet I my own self caused that unluckyness. 1734Mrs. Delany Life & Corr. (1861) I. 452 A piece of unluckiness of yours which has disappointed and mortified me. 1835Wilson's Tales Borders I. 65/1 The luckiness or unluckiness of a First Foot. 1897E. W. B. Nicholson Golspie 67 A belief in the unluckiness of Friday.
2. Tendency to mischief.
1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) I. 163 Ned..would not willingly have exchanged his unluckiness for the heirship of an estate. Ibid. 174 Ned's natural unluckiness. |