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English
Etymology
From Old French desaventure.
Noun
disadventure (countable and uncountable, plural disadventures)
- (obsolete) Misadventure, misfortune.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:They passing by, a goodly Ship did see, / Laden from far with precious merchandize, / And brauely furnished, as ship might bee, / Which through great disauenture, or mesprize, / Her selfe had runne into that hazardize […]
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