1561. T. Hoby, trans. Castiglione’s Courtyer, IV. (1577), X ij b. Although it putteth them in afflictions, daungers, trauels, and … unfortunatenesse.
1608. T. Morton, Preamb. Encounter, 123. The vnfortunatenesse of this his declamatorie calumniation.
1654. Gayton, Pleas. Notes, II. xxv. 285. O the unfortunatenesse of this adventure!
1697. Collier, Ess. Mor. Subj., I. 205. To play upon the Indigence … of another; and take an advantage from the Unfortunateness of his Condition.
1867. Bp. Wilberforce, Lett., in Life (1882), III. 217. I cannot agree as to the unfortunateness of the language.
