disadventure

English

Etymology

From Old French desaventure.

Noun

disadventure (countable and uncountable, plural disadventures)

1. (obsolete) Misadventure, misfortune.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     They passing by, a goodly Ship did see, / Laden from far with precious merchandize, / And brauely furnished, as ship might bee, / Which through great disauenture, or mesprize, / Her selfe had runne into that hazardize […]

Derived terms

• disadventurous

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