单词 | improsperity |
释义 | † improsperityn. Obsolete. Want of, or the opposite of, prosperity; bad fortune, ill success, adversity; unprosperousness. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > lack of prosperity or thriving illfarea1425 improsperity1528 improsperousness1647 ill-being1841 unprosperitya1843 illth1862 1528 D. Lindsay Dreme 848 Than quharein lyis our inprosperitie? 1660 J. Gauden Αναλυσις: Loosing St. Peters Bands 7 What improsperities, disorders,..wars, spoils, and bloodshed. 1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 254 God hath pronounc't an inprosperity to wickedness. 1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature v. 107 The prosperity or improsperity of a man..does not intirely depend upon his own prudence or imprudence. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < |
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