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unˈprosperous, a.
(un-1 7, 5 b.)
a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 257 The king heirand of his wnprosperous iournay. 1586Hooker Answ. Travers' Supplic. §5 Which vnprosperous beginning of a thing..did..disgrace that order in their conceit. 1631Gouge God's Arrows iii. §57. 289 No marvell therefore that the warre..was unprosperous. 1665Boyle Occas. Refl. vi. i, Endeavours, which..are oft-times so un⁓prosperous. 1776Adam Smith W.N. i. x. ii. (1869) I. 139 That unprosperous race of men, commonly called men of letters. 1861M. Arnold Pop. Educ. France 185 Not that primary instruction is unprosperous in the Canton of Vaud. 1884Pearson in Law Rep. 26 Chanc. Div. 676 The tenant for life received nothing from the unprosperous year, 1881. |