infortune
Americannoun
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Astrology. a planet or aspect of evil influence, especially Saturn or Mars.
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Obsolete. misfortune.
Etymology
Origin of infortune
1325–75; Middle English ( see in- 3, fortune), translation of Latin infortūnium
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Compare— "For of fortunes sharp adversitee The worst kinde of infortune is this, A man to have ben in prosperitee, And it remembren whan it passéd is."
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
For of fortune's sharp adversitie The worst kind of infortune is this: A man that hath been in prosperitie, And it remember when it passed is.
From The Red Acorn by John McElroy
Round the tomb is the battered iron railing placed there originally, with the myste- rious motto of the duchess worked into the top, - fortune infortune fort une.
From A Little Tour in France by Henry James
"For of fortunes sharpe adversite, The worst kind of infortune is this, A man that hath been in prosperite And it remember, whan it passed is!"
From Portia or By Passions Rocked by Duchess
The noyse of peple up-stirte thanne at ones, As breme as blase of straw y-set on fyre; For infortune it wolde, for the nones, 185 They sholden hir confusioun desyre.
From Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer
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