unsuccess
English
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editunsuccess (countable and uncountable, plural unsuccesses)
- A lack of success.
- 1939, W. H. Auden, In Memory of W. B. Yeats, lines 58–61:
- With the farming of a verse
Make a vineyard of the curse,
Sing of human unsuccess
In a rapture of distress