disventure
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]disventure (plural disventures)
- (obsolete) A disadventure.
- 1612–1620, [Miguel de Cervantes], translated by Thomas Shelton, The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] William Stansby, for Ed[ward] Blount and W. Barret, →OCLC:
- it was very great disventure to have encountred with you
References
[edit]“disventure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.