单词 | infortunacy |
释义 | † infortunacyn. Obsolete. The condition of being unfortunate; misfortune, bad luck. N.E.D. regarded quot. a1500 as the only example of a noun infortunage, based on the reading of an 1897 edition of the text. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] swenchOE derfnessc1175 wandrethc1175 adversity?c1225 derf?c1225 swinka1250 torferc1325 afflictiona1382 stressc1390 marrementc1391 sorea1400 noyancec1400 infortunacya1500 aloea1529 afflict?1529 obduction1610 afflictedness1646 strain1853 besetment1872 wahala1966 catch-arse1970 the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [noun] > misfortune or ill-luck > quality or condition of infortunacya1500 unluckiness1556 unfortunateness1561 infortunateness1587 lucklessness1834 hoodooism1966 a1500 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1932) 161 40 In thi condicion off inffortunacye Vnstedfast fortune ther is no confidence Thyn assurance is not but flatryng. 1571 T. Fortescue tr. P. Mexia Foreste iii. xvii. f. 151v The Romaines themselues bewepte that their infortunacie [Fr. malheur]. 1580 T. Lodge Delect. Hist. Forbonius & Prisceria (Shaks. Soc.) 106 Prisceria..forgetting welnie the infortunacie she was intangeled in, cast her armes about his necke. 1640 W. Somner Antiq. Canterbury 41 I cannot tell by what infortunacy, nothing was done to any purpose at that time. 1669 Addr. Hopeful Young Gentry 2 So many are found to complain of their peculiar infortunacy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.a1500 |
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