fortunings

English

Noun

fortunings pl (plural only)

1. (nonce word) Fortunes; things happening by chance.
   • 1889, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, New York, N.Y.: Charles L. Webster & Company, →OCLC:

     "Ah, peradventure my head being distraught by the manifold matters whereunto the confusions of these but late adventured haps and fortunings whereby not I alone nor you alone, but every each of us, meseemeth—"

   • 1887, #James Whitcomb Riley, Afterwhiles:

     And doth he counsel not / With thee in any wise pertaining to / His ailings, or of matters looking toward / His future purposes or his intents / Regarding thine own future fortunings / And his desires and interests therein?