Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Failure; adversity; infelicity.
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Examples
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"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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