Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Unhappy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Unhappy.
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- adjective obsolete
Unhappy
Etymologies
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From Middle English myshappy, equivalent to mis- + happy.
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Examples
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And the same saith Innocent in one of his books; he saith that sorrowful and mishappy is the condition of a poor beggar, for if he asks not his meat he dieth of hunger, and if he ask he dieth for shame; and dire necessity constraineth him to ask; and therefore saith Solomon: That better it is to die than for to have such poverty; and, as the same
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I Various 1885
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