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单词 disadventure
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disadventuren.

Forms: see dis- prefix and adventure n.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: dis- prefix, adventure n.
Etymology: < dis- prefix + adventure n., after Middle French desaventure (12th cent. in Old French as desavanture ). Compare earlier misadventure n.Compare Old Occitan desaventura (13th cent.).
Obsolete.
Misfortune; bad luck. Also (as a count noun): a misadventure; a mishap.
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the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [noun] > misfortune or ill-luck
un-i-limpOE
unlimpc1175
mishap?c1225
unhap?c1225
mishappeningc1230
ames-ace?a1300
misadventure?a1300
ill hailc1300
misauntera1325
untiminga1325
miscasec1325
mischancec1325
misfall1340
misfarea1387
casec1390
infortunea1393
mishapping?a1400
unchancea1400
disadventurea1413
mischieving1432
infortuny?a1439
encumbermentc1440
misfortune1441
evil hail?c1450
malfortunea1470
unhappiness1470
maleurtee?1473
malheur?1473
evil health1477
unfortune1483
wanfortunea1500
disfortune1509
wanhap1513
ill, evil ch(i)eving?1518
mislucka1530
ill luck1548
unfortunacy?c1550
evilfare1556
unluck1556
hard luck1567
bad luck1575
miscasualty1588
disgrace1590
wanchance1599
disventure1612
misaccident1620
miscarriagec1625
hard lines1722
mishanter1754
malefit1755
miscanter1781
hard cheese1854
hard cheddar1893
schlimazel1911
tough luck1912
snake eyes1918
catch-arse1970
a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1881) ii. l. 415 Yf þat I þurgh myn disauenture Had loued oþer hym or Achilles.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) II. 897 (MED) May I now wyghte my shame and my disadventures.
1543 Chron. J. Hardyng f. vii With streames to and fro And tempestes greate, and sore disauenture.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. ix. sig. I3v For neuer knight, that dared warlike deed, More luckless dissauentures did amate.
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 275 Barames a noble Persian by hap escaped, but not a second disadventure.
1694 W. Pope tr. M. de Cervantes Liberal Lover in Sel. Novels ii. 128 I have pass'd the Shipwrack of my Disadventures.
1753 R. Rolt Mem. Life J. Lindesay ii. iv. 148 Such as esteem themselves in the greatest security, even then fall soonest into disadventure.
1845 Milwaukie (Wisconsin Territory) Daily Sentinel 18 Nov. One of the Mesmeric missionaries recently sent forth from Richmond has met with a rather embarrassing disadventure in Charlottesville.
1888 C. M. Doughty Trav. Arabia Deserta I. xx. 559 He saw them yet in the sorrow of that immense disadventure; but they were lifting up their heads again.
1917 Flying Oct. 751/2 He..completed the journey to Hounslow without disadventure except for a slight detour made in error over Hendon.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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