adv. [f. UNFORTUNATE a.] In an unfortunate manner; unhappily, unluckily.
1548. Elyot, Infœliciter, vnhappily, vnfortunately.
1560. Daus, trans. Sleidane’s Comm., 282 b. The death of kinge Fraunces chaunced unfortunately for studentes.
1621. Lady M. Wroth, Urania, 536. Shee was … the vnfortunateliest married, and vnhappiest wife this Countrey had.
1651. Hobbes, Leviath., 390. Sidney Godolphin, who … was unfortunately slain in the … late Civill warre.
1700. Dryden, Sigism. & Guiscardo, 630. She … Ev’n kept her Count’nance, when the Lid remov’d Disclosed the Heart, unfortunately lov’d.
1710. Steele, Tatler, No. 204, ¶ 4. We use Words of Respect sometimes very unfortunately.
b. In parenthetic or detached use.
1706. E. Ward, Wooden World Diss. (1708), 37. He might unfortunately have grown up to be a Pedant.
1779. Mirror, No. 10. Unfortunately for us, we found with our friend a number of his jovial companions.
1827. Faraday, Chem. Manip., xviii. 472. Unfortunately this evil increases with the heat.
1874. J. Geikie, Gt. Ice Age, xiv. 183. These relics, unfortunately, have almost invariably been lost or mislaid.
