disaventure

English

Etymology

See disadventure, adventure.

Noun

disaventure (plural disaventures)

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

     Tho when her ways he could no more descry,
     But to and fro at disaventure strayd;
     Like as a ship, whose lodestarre, suddenly
     Covered with cloudes, her pilot hath dismayd

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “disaventure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)