Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Failure; adversity; infelicity.

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Examples

  • "Through wellfare or illfare she was always the same, and would share board and blanket with a friend though his pouch were as barren as Sarah's body."

    If I Were King Justin McCarthy 1871

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