单词 | unprosperously |
释义 | unprosperouslyadv. Without prosperity; unsuccessfully. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > [adverb] unhappily1533 unluckily?1544 unprosperously1564 improsperously1605 unsuccessfully1649 successlessly1652 insuccessively1657 unsuccessively1707 unkindly1743 the world > action or operation > adversity > [adverb] > without prospering or thriving unthrivinglya1387 unprosperously1848 1564 A. Golding tr. Justinus Hist. Trogus Pompeius Contents sig. **.iiv Phylippe..feighteth vnprosperously against the Tryballes. 1572 J. Bridges tr. R. Gwalther Hundred, Threescore & Fiftene Homelyes vppon Actes Apostles xiii. 517 As this contention came to passe vnprosperouslye for Elymas, so great profyte came thereby vnto the Proconsull. 1608 P. Golding tr. J. Sleidane Epit. Frossard 62 The matter had falne out so vnprosperously before. 1630 R. Norton tr. W. Camden Hist. Princesse Elizabeth ii. 117 Two famous Pilots..sought as vnprosperously to discouer a neere way to East-India. 1663 R. Boyle Some Considerations Usefulnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. ii. i. 10 It is possible to be safely made, though many..have but unprosperously attempted it. 1759 W. Harte Hist. Life Gustavus Adolphus I. 89 The campaign concluded neither unprosperously nor ingloriously for the Swedish cause. 1767 tr. D. Cranz Hist. Greenland I. i. i. 5 In the beginning things went very unprosperously with this colony. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lvii. 514 Her life, begun not unprosperously, had come down to..a long, ignoble bondage. 1876 C. M. Yonge Womankind xxxii Love affairs come early and unprosperously. 1949 Times 5 Aug. 5/3 They live by no means unprosperously. 1999 Maryland Biogr. Dict. 142 William J. Clark..drifted unprosperously from one Maryland parish to another. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adv.1564 |
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