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English
Etymology
See disadventure, adventure.
Noun
disaventure (plural disaventures)
- (obsolete) misfortune
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:Tho when her ways he could no more descry,
But to and fro at disaventure strayd;
Like as a ship, whose lodestarre, suddenly
Covered with cloudes, her pilot hath dismayd