unfortunatenessn.
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the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [noun] > misfortune or ill-luck > quality or condition of
infortunacya1500
unluckiness1556
unfortunateness1561
infortunateness1587
lucklessness1834
hoodooism1966
1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer iv. sig. Tt.iii Although it putteth them in afflictions, daungeres, trauailes, &..vnfortunatenes.
1608 Bp. T. Morton Preamble Incounter 123 The vnfortunatenesse of this his declamatorie calumniation.
1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot ii. xxv. 285 O the unfortunatenesse of this adventure!
1694 J. Collier Misc. i. 33 To play upon the Indigence..of another; and take an Advantage from the Unfortunateness of his Condition.
1867 S. Wilberforce Let. in R. G. Wilberforce Life S. Wilberforce (1882) III. 217 I cannot agree as to the unfortunateness of the language.
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