单词 | infortunity |
释义 | infortunityn. Now rare. 1. The condition of being unfortunate; misfortune, adversity.In quot. 1935, echoing quot. 1600. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [noun] unhealc700 unselthc888 bale-sithea1000 unselea1023 un-i-selthOE sithec1250 ruthc1275 unwhatec1275 tempestc1330 illa1340 infelicityc1384 banec1400 naufragiea1425 infortunitya1438 naufrage1480 calamity1490 inconvenience1509 wanweirda1522 inconveniency1553 wroth1581 murderation1862 a1438 Bk. Margery Kempe i. 55 Þer cam a ȝong man..compleynyng to þe preste of pouerte & disese whech he was fallyn in be infortunyte, expleyntyng þe cawse of infortunyte. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. lxxxxv Ye noble men that were slayne in Scotlande by his infortunyte. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxv Other there be that ascribe his infortunitie, onely to the stroke & punishment of God. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xlii. lxii. 1152 They are well tamed with the infortunitie of this battell. 1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 237 If you would know whether your fortunatenesse or infortunity, prosperity or adversity shall be more, or lesse. a1731 D. Defoe Remark. Passage Apparition in Wks. (1841) XIX. 259 The infortunity of the family. 1935 E. R. Eddison Mistress x. 185 It shall appear whether I be well tamed with the infortunity of this battle. 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 1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 3 For resistence of the in fortunitees that dayly falles in thys worlde. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxlvijv How dolorous..to remember the chaunces, & infortunites that happened within twoo yere in Englande. 1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxiv. vii. 258 And..there happened another no small infortunitie, namely, that the succors which we waited for..seemed for the causes aforesaid letted and stayd. 1654 A. Cokayne tr. G. F. Loredano Dianea i. 14 We are all equally made lyable to infortunities. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1438 |
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