单词 | unfortunateness |
释义 | unfortunatenessn. (un- prefix1 6.) ΘΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1924; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1561 |
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