unhap
English
editEtymology
editInherited from Middle English unhap, onhap, equivalent to un- (“lack of”) + hap (“fortune”).
Noun
editunhap (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Ill luck; misfortune.
- a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:
- the cause of her unhap
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “unhap”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Middle English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editEquivalent to un- (“lack of”) + hap (“luck”).
Noun
editunhap (plural unhappes)
Descendants
edit- English: unhap
References
edit- “unhap, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.