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单词 maladventure
释义

maladventuren.

Forms: late Middle English maleauenture, late Middle English male-euenture, 1500s mal'aduenture, 1500s male auenture, 1800s maladventure, 1800s mal-aventure.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French malaventure.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French malaventure wickedness, misfortune, unhappiness (12th cent. in Old French) < mal- mal- prefix + aventure adventure n. Compare earlier misadventure n.On spellings in -d- compare note s.v. adventure n.
Obsolete.
a. Misfortune; an unlucky undertaking; a misadventure.
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the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [noun] > misfortune or ill-luck > an unlucky undertaking
maladventure1447
misventure1563
1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) 7355 Oyle..Wych al dysese or male-euenture..doth hele & cure.
?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 146 [He] ran vnto the rescouse to his maleauenture.
a1805 A. Carlyle Autobiogr. (1860) vii. 305 Youth and good spirits made us convert all maladventures into fun.
1815 Zeluca II. 2 Charged with all the mal-aventures, it seemed to be considered in the duties of her post to have overcome.
b. A lawless proceeding, an escapade.
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society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > evildoing or wrongdoing > [noun] > reckless or unjustified wrongdoing > a reckless or unjustifiable act
wantonness1531
maladventure1543
1543 ( Chron. J. Hardyng (1812) 302 Ryotous lyuyng, and male auentures.
1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. E2 Trye if you can tempt Enuie to embark himselfe in the mal'aduenture.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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