unhappilyadv.

c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde v. 937 But he was slayn..Vnhappyly at Thebes al to raþe.

c1430 Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 7351 Jewel vnhappelie hidre did hir bring, For now he hath an euel ending.

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 7104 Þen vnhappely hys hest he hastid to do, Þat angart hym after angardly sore.

1558 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Edward VI (1914) 251 I ame not able to ryde..by reason of a strayn which I have vnhappelie mett with.

1596 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent (rev. ed.) 173 I deliuer such onely, as lying in my way do offer themselues, and such, as..I haue not vnhappily lighted vpon.

1609 S. Daniel Civile Wares (rev. ed.) iv. lvii. 101 Worc'ster (who had escap't vnhappily His death in battel) on a Scaffold dyes.

1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 22 That War, in which the King was so unhappyly engaged against Spain.

1738 in Minutes of Evid. Nairne Peerage (1873) 42 in Sessional Papers House of Lords (H.L. A) XII. 65 Whereas John Nairne..was unhappily seduced..to join in the rebellion.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xxviii. sig. Zz6 She saw, as he lifted vp his armes.., about one of them, vnhappily, tied a garter.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) i. ii. 144 Lucio. With childe, perhaps? Claudio. Vnhappely, euen so. View more context for this quotation

1649 A. Ascham Bounds Publique Obed. 2 The first Treatise, in which (and the unhappilier, to give foundation to practicable errors) they..mistake principles.

1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 109 He had unhappily forgot it, when he writ this Epistle.

1728 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) III. 327 By being unhappily in the Company of those who committed it.

1796 F. Burney Camilla III. vi. xii. 388 But to all that was thus most fascinating to others, she joined unhappily all that was most dangerous for herself.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iv. 460 Unhappily the splendid qualities of John Churchill were mingled with alloy of the most sordid kind.

1890 Retrospect Med. 102 340 But when this is unhappily not to be accomplished, a partial removal has obviously prolonged life.

1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 54 And ate laste unhappely This Hert his oghne houndes slowhe.

1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy iv. 1489 Achilles axeþ how it is Amonge Grekis, & clerly how it stood... ‘Certis,’ quod he, ‘ful vnhappily’.

c1480 (a1400) St. Pelagia 179 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 209 I..Þat has nocht anerly my-selfe sonkyne in syne vnhapely.

1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. xxxi But these lewde caytyfs.., lyuynge vnhappely In shame they lyue and wretchedly they dye.

1596 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. i. 76 At the last maist unnaturally and unhappilie..fell out the lamentable slauchter of the saidis vmquhill James Stirling.

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear ii. 139 I promise you the effects he writ of, succeed vnhappily . View more context for this quotation

a1658 R. Lovelace Poems (1904) 134 Ah Victory! unhap'ly wonne, Weeping and Red is set the Sun.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 917 I..unweeting have offended, Unhappilie deceav'd. View more context for this quotation

1779 J. Warner in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & his Contemp. (1844) IV. 300 The giddy girl who married unhappily.

1781 W. Cowper Charity 632 If, unhappily deceiv'd, I dream, And prove too weak for so divine a theme.

1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. i. xv. 86 Þe Sabynis faucht vnhappely in þis last battall.

1654 tr. M. Martini Bellum Tartaricum 55 So as if any fought unhappily,..the Governors hardly ever escaped alive.

1831 W. Scott Count Robert ii, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. II. 33 One of those simple persons who manage so unhappily what they mean for civilities, that those to whom they are addressed receive them frequently in another sense.

1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xviii. 85 What man on live can use suche governaunce..but right pryvely Behinde his backe some sayth unhappely?

1549 T. Chaloner tr. Erasmus Praise of Folie sig. Giij They thynke unhappeliest in their herts, whan they speake smotheliest with their toungs.

1660 J. S. Andromana iii. iii I know you always talk'd unhappily, And if your heart dare do what's ill, I know it can well teach your tongue excuses.

1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII i. iv. 92 You are a Churchman, or Ile tell you Cardinall, I should iudge now vnhappily . View more context for this quotation