| 单词 | ill success |
| 释义 | > as lemmasill success ill success n. imperfect success (sense A. 6); often = want of success, failure (cf. A. 5). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > [noun] wanspeedc893 defaulta1387 unspeeda1400 faultingc1450 fail1477 defallation1490 ill, evil ch(i)eving?1518 misproving1542 defection1576 unsuccessa1586 defailance1603 abortiveness1611 defailment1612 ill success1615 failancea1627 unprosperitya1628 mis-success1641 successlessness1642 insuccess1646 intercision1647 failure1648 insuccessfulness1648 unprosperousness1648 defaillancy1649 unsuccessfulness1656 missucceedinga1661 non-success1665 defailurea1677 miscarrying1736 throwdown1887 short circuit1937 Palookaville?1954 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 145 Ill successe of the Christian armies. 1665 S. Pepys Diary 20 Aug. (1972) VI. 198 My Lord is..unblameable, in all this ill-success. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 291 The ill success of these expeditions. 1876 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. (rev. ed.) II. xxii. 25 Disheartened by former ill-success. ill success a. The fortune (good or bad) befalling anyone in a particular situation or affair. Usually with qualifying adjective good success = sense 3; ill success: failure, misadventure, misfortune. archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [noun] > fortune or luck sitheOE hapc1275 fortunea1300 timingc1300 thriftc1305 speeda1325 casta1400 venturea1450 issuec1475 luck1481 success1548 speeding1573 chancing1583 potluck1592 ship1851 joss1913 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. xxxix Although thei had knowlege what good successe Perkyn had enioyed in al his former attemptes. 1577 M. Hanmer tr. Evagrius Scholasticus v. x, in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. 495 After that the assault of Adaarmanes toke no prosperous successe at Antioch. 1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 37v Philautus hauing intelligence of Euphues his successe, and the falshoode of Lucilla. 1596 W. Raleigh Discoverie Guiana (new ed.) 17 The hard successe which all these & other Spaniards found in attempting the same. 1596 W. Raleigh Discoverie Guiana (new ed.) 28 Berreo..looked for no other successe than his predecessors in this enterprize. 1619 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1618–21 (1906) 74 I am sorrye to heare of John Younges disaster etc., yett am in good hope of better sucksess. 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 1 Perplex'd and troubl'd at his bad success . View more context for this quotation a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1657 (1955) III. 201 After Sermon, & prayers for good successe. 1704 N. Blundell Diary (1895) 25 I went to wish good Suckcess to Mr. Molineux of Croxtath ere he went a Courting. 1764 O. Goldsmith Hist. Eng. in Lett. (1772) II. 208 The bad success of his admirals at sea. 1823 R. Southey Hist. Peninsular War I. 470 With so little accuracy do the French relate the circumstances of their ill success. 1839 F. A. Kemble Jrnl. Resid. Georgian Plantation (1863) 126 I was recalled to a most ludicrous perception of my ill success. < as lemmas |
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