Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Ill luck; misfortune.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Ill luck; misfortune.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete Ill luck;
misfortune . - noun The cause of her unhap. — Sir P. Sidney.
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Examples
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"You would do that?" he said shrilly, then slumped back down unhap - pily.
Stalling 2010
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She had tried to conceal it since unhap-piness at Toynton Grange was a sin against the Holy Ghost, a sin against Wilfred.
She Closed Her Eyes 2010
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Victor who saw no virtue in concealing unhap-piness, who frequently proclaimed that if people were dedicated to the practice of charity they might as well have someone to be charitable about.
She Closed Her Eyes 2010
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But in this was unhap, that because of certain feuds which had endured from old time, this love was perilous unto them and us; so that we lived in doubt and unrest.
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Lo my unhap! that he should mark my face that it shows as if I were fain to do thee a mischief.
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“That I may be only the more unhap — unwilling to lose you?”
Vanity Fair 2006
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So in this season, as in the month of May, it befell a great anger and unhap that stinted not till the flower of chivalry of all the world was destroyed and slain; and all was long upon two unhappy knights the which were named Agravaine and Sir Mordred, that were brethren unto Sir
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Sir Gawaine, hath sent me afore his death, praying me to see his tomb, wit you well his doleful words shall never go from mine heart, for he was a full noble knight as ever was born; and in an unhappy hour was I born that ever I should have that unhap to slay first Sir Gawaine, Sir Gaheris the good knight, and mine own friend
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And then by unhap the queen drew out his sword and beheld it a long while, and both they thought it a passing fair sword; but within a foot and an half of the point there was a great piece thereof out-broken of the edge.
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It seemed to Mma Ramotswe as if such advice would be totally unnecessary and would probably simply lead to unhap-piness.
Tears Of The Giraffe Smith, Alexander McCall, 1948- 2000
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