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▪ I. mischance, n. (mɪsˈtʃɑːns, -æ-) Forms: see chance n.; also 5 miscaunce, -chanche, meshaunce. [a. OF. mesch(e)ance, -aunce, also meschanche, mescance:—L. type *minuscadentiam: see mis-2 and chance n.] 1. Ill-luck, ill-success. In early use often with stronger sense, disaster, calamity.1297 R. Gl...
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mischance
mischance/ˌmɪsˈtʃɑ:ns; ?@ -ˈtʃæns; mɪs`tʃæns/ n[C, U](fml 文) (piece of) bad luck 不幸; 坏运气 a series of mischances 一连串的不幸 I lost your file by pure mischance. 我把你的文件弄没了, 纯粹是碰上的倒霉事.
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Sigillaria (ancient Rome)
built the Sublician bridge (as it’s now called) so that he could cast into the river human effigies equal in number to the companions he had lost to mischance
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ACCIDENT Synonyms: 54 Similar and Opposite Words - Merriam-Webster
Synonyms for ACCIDENT: casualty, disaster, catastrophe, mishap, tragedy, mischance, misfortune, collision; Antonyms of ACCIDENT: miracle, strike, break, windfall ...
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Martial Bourdin
The police concluded that "some mischance or miscalculation or some clumsy bungling" had caused the bomb to explode in Bourdin's hand.
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Joah Bates
The vexation and trouble resulting from this mischance brought on (says Burney) a complaint in his chest which finally proved fatal.
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1927 Soviet Union legislative election
reports in the news-papers, one would hardly have suspected it...There is no organization which could compile any alternative list of candidates, and if by mischance
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mischanced
misˈchanced, a. [f. mischance n. + -ed.] † 1. Unlucky, unfortunate, ill-fated. Obs.c 1470 Henry Wallace viii. 320 Curssand fortoun off his myschansit [ed. 1570 mischancefull] cace. 1552 Huloet, Mischaunced, infortunatus. 2. Gone wrong.1875 O. Schmidt Doctr. Descent xi. 255 From these [the Annulosa] ...
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Carpenter v. Commissioner
Accordingly, the court stated that the damage to the ring resulted from the “destructive force of the disposal coupled with the accident or mischance of
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mischanceful
misˈchanceful, a. Now arch. or poet. [f. mischance n. +-ful.] Unlucky, unfortunate.1303 R. Brunne Handl. Synne 3924 Ȝyf þou were euer payde of myschaunceful þyng Þat befyl to any man. 1570 [see mischanced, quot. c 1470]. 1594 H. Helmes Gesta Grayorum (1688) 22 This mischanceful Accident..was a great...
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mishaply
misˈhaply, adv. [mis-1 6.] By mischance.1470–85 Malory Arthur vii. vi. 220 By myshap thou camyst behynde hym and myshappely thou slewe hym.
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misaccident
† miˈsaccident Obs. [f. mis-1 4 + accident n., after mischance.] = mischance, mishap.1623 in H. Foley Rec. Eng. Prov. S.J. I. 95 His majestie was verie sorrie for the mis-accident that happened at the French Ambassador's. 1633 Bp. Hall Occas. Medit. vi. 16 Here is a great world in a little roome, by...
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