Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Attended by misfortune; unfortunate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Unfortunate.
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- adjective archaic
unlucky ,unfortunate
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Examples
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She suffered misfortuned enough for an entire zip code.
Elizabeth Edwards Joel Achenbach 2010
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We can know they pass away in agony within them of eternal screams of terror, brought into themselves, into their lives and families and misfortuned friends, know it all and true, and not ever need to witness it is so.
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Perhaps this is because the film immediately jumps into the chaos and disaster that is brought before the team of misfortuned vactioners.
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Perhaps this is because the film immediately jumps into the chaos and disaster that is brought before the team of misfortuned vactioners.
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Fair knights, said Sir Tristram, with a good will I would joust with you, but I have promised at a day set, near hand, to do battle with a strong knight; and therefore I am loath to have ado with you, for an it misfortuned me here to be hurt I should not be able to do my battle which I promised.
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God would that I had part of her conditions; and it is misfortuned me of my sickness while that tournament endured.
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Arthur and we all landed upon them at Dover; and there we put that false traitor, Sir Mordred, to flight, and there it misfortuned me to be stricken upon thy stroke.
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'And if they are truly misfortuned, why, they may catch us!'
The Gates of Noon Rohan, Michael Scott, 1951- 1992
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We all landed upon him and his host at Dover, and there put him to flight, and there it misfortuned me to be stricken in the same wound the which I had of thy hand, Sir Launcelot.
Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur" U. Waldo Cutler
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And there it misfortuned me for to be stricken upon thy stroke.
A Book of English Prose Part II, Arranged for Secondary and High Schools Percy Lubbock 1922
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