Obs. [UN-1 12, 5 b.] Lack of good fortune; an unfortunate occurrence.

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a. 1575.  trans. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (Camden Soc. 29), 124. The rumor was spred that the same was doone by therles assent,… but in dede yt was the unfortunacy of king Henry.

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a. 1662.  Heylyn, Laud, II. (1671), 312. The King he tacitly upbraids with the unfortunacies of his Reign by Deaths and Plagues.

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