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misˈfortunate, a. Now chiefly Sc. and U.S.
[mis-1 6.]
Unfortunate.
1530Palsgr. 319/1 Mysfortunate. 1553T. Wilson Rhet. 45 But what seeke I for misfortunate men,..seyng it is an harder matter..to finde out happie men? 1573L. Lloyd Pilgr. Princes (1607) 3 Thus was the misfortunate end of so fortunate a beginning. 1664H. More Myst. Iniq. xix. 73 Harbours of retirement..to the Nobler sort of Persons who are..misfortunate in their affairs. 1733P. Lindsay Interest Scot. 11 The misfortunate Trader that fails. 1782E. N. Blower Geo. Bateman III. 21 But her's misfortunate in all her undertakings. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xlvi, ‘Married, Effie!’ exclaimed Jeanie—‘Misfortunate creature! and to that awfu' ―’. 1834Sir H. Taylor Artevelde ii. iv. iv. 165 In that misfortunate wasting of his strength. 1855Haliburton Nat. & Hum. Nat. I. 186 These arguments..do harm if the misfortunate critter is rubbed agin the grain. 1860Reade Cloister & H. lv, Maligning the misfortunate.
Hence misˈfortunately adv. Sc., unfortunately.
1727J. Keith Mem. (Spalding Cl.) 71 We expected immediately to have open'd the trenches, but very misfortunately we had no cannon. 1881Blackie Lay Serm. viii. 246 One of those men of small notions,..who, when perched misfortunately on high places [etc.]. |