Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An unfortunate occurrence; a mishap.
- noun Bad luck.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To chance or happen wrongly or unfortunately; fall out adversely; meet with a mishap; come to ill luck.
- noun An unfortunate chance; a mishap; ill luck; disaster.
- noun Synonyms Mishap, Disaster, etc. See
misfortune .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Ill luck; ill fortune; mishap.
- intransitive verb To happen by mischance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Bad luck ,misfortune . - noun A
mishap , an unlucky circumstance.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an instance of misfortune
- noun an unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate
Etymologies
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Examples
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Debts are mischances, and I am in mischance with you.
The Wit of Porportuk 2010
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Debts are mischances, and I am in mischance with you.
The Wit of Porportuk 1910
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It will be recalled that the Army, through unpredictable mischance, which is a euphemism for French defection, had lost all its equipment-tanks, guns, transport, and even rifles had gone.
The Navy 1941
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Four had perished by mischance in the bleak, uncharted vastness.
Chapter 1 2010
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As mischance would have it, Michael did not reach the ground.
CHAPTER XXXVI 2010
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They encounter a ship in a lonely solar system, but through a freak mischance, are bonded to the other ship on a path towards the system's star.
REVIEW: The World Turned Upside Down edited by David Drake, Eric Flint and Jim Baen 2009
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Can't possibly be Satan, you think He has time for facilitating the tiny sin of being tempted to blaspheme by the mischance of a wayward round?
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Her mischance lay in that she bumped her head, and, before she could recover way, Forrest had circled the piano and cornered her under it.
CHAPTER III 2010
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Can't possibly be Satan, you think He has time for facilitating the tiny sin of being tempted to blaspheme by the mischance of a wayward round?
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Edwin Bentham was a boy, thrust by mischance into a man's body, -- a boy who could complacently pluck a butterfly, wing from wing, or cower in abject terror before a lean, nervy fellow, not half his size.
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