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unsucˈcess
[un-1 12 and 5 b.]
Lack of success, failure; an instance of this.
a1586Sidney Arcadia ii. viii, He deemed his unsuccesse [1590 unsuccessings] proceeded of their unwillingnes to have him prosper. 1655Nicholas Papers (Camden) II. 292 The late busines, whose vnsuccess, as hee thought, wolde prooue of aduantage to Cromwell. 1710Strype Life & Acts of E. Grindal vii. 70 These Unsuccesses were justly looked upon to proceed from the punishing Hand of Heaven. 1797J. Pinkerton Hist. Scotland I. 86 Fortune preserved his government from any signal unsuccess. 1837Miss Mitford Country Stories (1850) 129 Chilled by so much unsuccess, the ardour of my pursuit began to abate. 1883Swinburne Misc. (1886) 128 The definitions he gives us of his object and the tests which these offer of his success and unsuccess. |