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单词 infortune
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infortunen.

Brit. /ɪnˈfɔːtʃuːn/, /ɪnˈfɔːtʃ(ə)n/, U.S. /ᵻnˈfɔrtʃ(ə)n/
Forms: Middle English inforttewin, Middle English infortwne, Middle English infurtune, Middle English ynfortune, Middle English–1500s enfortune, Middle English– infortune; Scottish pre-1700 inforton, pre-1700 infortone, pre-1700 infortoun, pre-1700 infortoune, pre-1700 infortowne, pre-1700 infortwne, pre-1700 1700s– infortune.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French infortune.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French infortune (French infortune ) misfortune, bad luck, mishap (a1374; late 15th cent. or earlier in sense ‘malevolent astrological influence’) < classical Latin infortūnium infortuny n., with remodelling after fortune fortune n. Compare Catalan infortuni (14th cent.), Spanish infortunio (13th cent.), Portuguese infortúnio (c1538), Italian infortunio (14th cent.). Compare slightly later infortuny n., infortunity n.In form enfortune by association with words in en- prefix1.
1.
a. Lack of good fortune, success, or prosperity; misfortune, bad luck. Now poetic and rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [noun] > misfortune or ill-luck
un-i-limpOE
unlimpc1175
mishap?c1225
unhap?c1225
mishappeningc1230
ames-ace?a1300
misadventure?a1300
ill hailc1300
misauntera1325
untiminga1325
miscasec1325
mischancec1325
misfall1340
misfarea1387
casec1390
infortunea1393
mishapping?a1400
unchancea1400
disadventurea1413
mischieving1432
infortuny?a1439
encumbermentc1440
misfortune1441
evil hail?c1450
malfortunea1470
unhappiness1470
maleurtee?1473
malheur?1473
evil health1477
unfortune1483
wanfortunea1500
disfortune1509
wanhap1513
ill, evil ch(i)eving?1518
mislucka1530
ill luck1548
unfortunacy?c1550
evilfare1556
unluck1556
hard luck1567
bad luck1575
miscasualty1588
disgrace1590
wanchance1599
disventure1612
misaccident1620
miscarriagec1625
hard lines1722
mishanter1754
malefit1755
miscanter1781
hard cheese1854
hard cheddar1893
schlimazel1911
tough luck1912
snake eyes1918
catch-arse1970
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. 2446 (MED) Riht as it with tho men stod Of infortune of worldes good..Riht so fulofte it stant be love.
a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) iii. l. 1626 Þe worste kynde of Infortune is þis.
c1450 J. Lydgate Secrees (Sloane 2464) l. 913 Be sodeyn Caas Or in necessyte, Or infortunys froward violence.
a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) i. cxxx. f. cxlviiv/2 He shold take his Infortune in pacyence.
a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) ii. xx. sig. r.iiv A fyre by infortune rose vp sodeinly.
1569 E. Fenton tr. P. Boaistuau Certaine Secrete Wonders Nature f. 88v Such was ye infortune of this miserable King Ferdinando, to fall so deepe and desperatly into the ire of God, that he was killed in the firste conflicte.
?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) iii. 234 Our long-sustain'd infortune might be freed.
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures lxiv. 262 For my greater infortune, the tempest cast my Brigandine upon the coast of this Country.
1799 W. Wennington tr. A. H. J. Lafontaine Man of Nature xxvii. 239 Mary then wrote a letter to Fanny's uncle, wherein she implored him, by every thing sacred, to forebear plungeing her to the extreme of infortune.
1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward I. xiii. 254 This conjunction doth indeed promise success; but, methinks, that Saturn being combust, threatens danger and infortune to the party sent.
1906 C. M. Doughty Dawn in Brit. IV. xv. 145 Strong Antethrigus, Whom gods, in so extreme infortune, cast.
b. As a count noun: an instance of lack of good fortune; a misfortune, an unfortunate event. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [noun] > misfortune or ill-luck > instance of misfortune or ill-luck
unsitheOE
evila1300
mischiefa1325
illa1340
adversity1340
infortunea1393
infortunity1477
cladec1480
misfortunec1485
fortune1490
trouble?1521
stumble1547
infelicity1575
disgrace1622
unfortunacya1662
disgracia1740
miscanter1781
reversal1846
avalanche1850
rough spin1919
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. 3088 (MED) This infortune of double harm The goddes..Behielde.
1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 79 We haue had vpon the see so many infortunes by tempeste of windes.
1544 T. Phaer Of Pestilence (1553) K iij b The lyfe whiche we lead here, is..subiecte to diseases, infortunes, and calamytyes.
1588 A. Munday tr. Palmerin D'Oliua sig. W3v My greatest ease consisteth in..remembraunce of passed infortunes.
1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 313 At this, the dream-spellers were divided in their divinations; some interpreting it a fortune, some an infortune.
1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie ii. 193 Such lines have the signification of infortunes, and sundry hurtfull falls.
1674 W. Charleton Nat. Hist. Passions 168 I have fallen into Errors, that have more dejected my spirit, than a long succession of infortunes could ever doe.
2. Astrology. A malevolent influence; the planet or aspect causing this; esp. either Saturn or Mars (more fully the greater infortune and the lesser infortune respectively). Cf. fortune n. 8.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the universe > planet > position of planet > aspect > [noun] > unfortunate
infortuningc1400
infortunec1405
the world > the universe > heavenly body > as influence on mankind > [noun] > influence > planet as > malign
shrewc1400
infortunec1405
the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [noun] > misfortune or ill-luck > causing or bringing misfortune > one who or that which
foota1225
woea1300
infortunec1405
infortunate1558
jettatura1822
bad medicine1857
hoodoo1882
voodoo1902
jinx1911
mock1911
mocker1923
kiss of death1948
c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1163 Naught was forgeten by the Infortune of Marte.
1579 T. Lupton Thousand Notable Things iv. 91 If thou dost finde the Moone seperate from Infortunes, (that is from an euyll Planette, or from an Infortunate Planette) tell him that his going is better then his tarying.
a1640 P. Massinger City-Madam (1658) ii. ii. 81 Saturn out of all dignities..and Venus in the South-angle elevated above him..and free from the malevolent beams of infortunes.
1651 N. Culpeper Astrol. Judgm. Dis. (1658) 108 If the sign the Lord of the sixth possesseth, especially if he be an infortune, or a fortune infortunated.
1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ i. vi. 16 The Dragons Tail is..an Infortune signifying Mischiefs, Scandals, Shame.
1726 S. Penseyre New Guide Astrol. 167 An Infortune in the tenth or fourth House from the Ascendant of the Question, obscures the Matter or Things quesited after.
1788 H. Clarke School Candidates i. 11 On investigating the Seventh House of the Horoscope,..old Saturn, that malevolent and greater Infortune, [was] found therein.
1830 T. Oxley Celestial Planispheres 208 The lord of the first in the eighth, being naturally an Infortune and afflicted besides, &c. shews a violent Death.
1881 R. A. Proctor Poetry of Astron. viii. 278 Saturn, the greater Infortune, as Mars himself is the lesser Infortune, of Astrological systems.
1917 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 17 Oct. 10/6 Another set of ‘infortunes’ in affliction hold sway on this day, making it hazardous to make changes.
1930 PMLA 45 142 The planet Venus appeases the wrath of the infortune, Mars.
2003 Swiss News (Nexis) 1 Aug. 35 Whoever has been spared by Saturn—the Greater Infortune—might still become the prey of his smaller companion named Mars, the Lesser Infortune.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

infortunev.

Forms: late Middle English ynfortune, late Middle English–1600s infortune.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: infortune n.
Etymology: < infortune n. Compare Middle French, French †infortuner (1496), Spanish infortunar (13th cent.), Portuguese infortunar (15th cent.). Compare slightly earlier infortuned adj., infortuning n., and later infortunate v.
Obsolete.
transitive. To cause misfortune to, to afflict; (Astrology) to cause (a planet) to have a malign influence. Usually in passive.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > adversity > suffer (adversity or affliction) [verb (transitive)] > afflict
overharryeOE
aileOE
swencheOE
besetOE
traya1000
teenOE
to work (also do) (a person) woeOE
derve?c1225
grieve1297
harrya1300
noyc1300
travailc1300
to work (also do) annoyc1300
wrath14..
aggrievea1325
annoya1325
tribula1325
to hold wakenc1330
anguish1340
distrainc1374
wrap1380
strain1382
ermec1386
afflicta1393
cumbera1400
assayc1400
distressc1400
temptc1400
encumber1413
labour1437
infortune?a1439
stressa1450
trouble1489
arraya1500
constraina1500
attempt1525
misease1530
exercise1531
to hold or keep waking1533
try1539
to wring to the worse1542
pinch1548
affligec1550
trounce1551
oppress1555
inflict1566
overharl1570
strait1579
to make a martyr of1599
straiten1611
tribulatea1637
to put through the hoop(s)1919
snooter1923
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) ii. 2879 (MED) It doth ther fame trouble, Infortuneth and clipseth ther noblesse, Whan a prynce is off his heste double.
a1475 J. Shirley Death James (BL Add. 5467) in Miscellanea Scotica (1818) II. 20 (MED) The said Grame, seyng his Kyng and Soveran Lord ynfortuned with so much deseyse, angwesh, and sorowe, wold hafe so levyd.
1518 H. Watson tr. Hystorye Olyuer of Castylle sig. Cviiv As infortuned I shall vse ye surplus of my lyfe in praynge our lorde that he wyll kepe thy ryght fayre yongth from all encomberaunce.
1651 N. Culpeper Semeiotica Uranica ii. xiii. 130 Though the Lord of the ascendent be a malevelent, it matters not, so he be direct, and not infortuned by house.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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