mischance
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman meschance, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French meschance, meschaunce.
Pronunciation
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Noun
mischance (countable and uncountable, plural mischances)
- Bad luck, misfortune.
- 1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, V.2:
- But let this same be presently perform'd / Even when men's minds are wild, lest more mischance / On plots and errors happen.
- 1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, V.2:
- A mishap, an unlucky circumstance.
- 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 3:
- He doth miraculously protect from thieves, incursions, sword, fire, and all violent mischances […]
Verb
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- (transitive, intransitive) To undergo (a misfortune); to suffer (something unfortunate).