befortunev.
rare.
intransitive and with dative object. To befall, happen, chance.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > chance [verb (intransitive)] > come about by chance
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iv. iii. 41 As much, I wish all good befortune you. View more context for this quotation
1859 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Aeneid v, in tr. Virgil Wks. II. 51 Whatever shall befortune, every hap Is by endurance to be overcome.
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