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luckless, a.|ˈlʌklɪs|
(In 6 superl. lucklest.)
[f. luck n. + -less.]
1. Having no ‘luck’ or good fortune; attended with ill-luck; unlucky, hapless, ill-starred, unfortunate. (Of persons and things.)
1563Sackville Induct. Mirr. Mag. xvii, The drery destinie And luckeles lot for to bemone of those, Whom Fortune [etc.]. a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. (1598) 389 Mine is the lucklest lot, That euer fell to honest woman yet. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. vi. 19 Glad of such lucke, the luckelesse lucky mayd. 1593Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, ii. vi. 18, I, and ten thousand in this lucklesse Realme. 1697Dryden Virg. Past. viii. 81 Let the whelming Tide, The lifeless Limbs of luckless Damon hide. 1782Cowper Gilpin 201 Ah, luckless speech, and bootless boast! 1874Green Short Hist. v. §1. 213 [Chaucer] was luckless enough to be made prisoner. 1876L. Stephen Eng. Th. 18th C. I. 102 It was a luckless performance so far as his temporal interests were concerned.
†2. Presaging or foreboding evil, ominous of ill.
1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. xii. xxxiv, On his dangling crest A lucklesse Raven spred her blackest wings. 1637B. Jonson Sad Sheph. ii. ii, The shreikes of lucklesse Owles Wee heare! and croaking Night-Crowes in the aire.
Hence ˈlucklessly adv., ˈlucklessness.
1830H. Angelo Remin. I. 452 When lucklessly engaging to subdue a fine Arabian..he was thrown, and..was killed on the spot. 1868Browning Ring & Bk. v. 44 Show men the lucklessness, the improvidence Of the easy-natured Count. 1876Green Stray Stud. 368 Michelet has with singular lucklessness selected Angers as the type of a feudal city. |