a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, II. viii. He deemed his unsuccesse [1590 unsuccessings] proceeded of their unwillingnes to have him prosper.
1655. Nicholas Papers (Camden), II. 292. The late busines, whose vnsuccess, as hee thought, wolde prooue of aduantage to Cromwell.
1710. Strype, Life & Acts of E. Grindal, vii. 70. These Unsuccesses were justly looked upon to proceed from the punishing Hand of Heaven.
1797. J. Pinkerton, Hist. Scotland, I. 86. Fortune preserved his government from any signal unsuccess.
1837. Miss Mitford, Country Stories (1850), 129. Chilled by so much unsuccess, the ardour of my pursuit began to abate.
1883. Swinburne, Misc. (1886), 128. The definitions he gives us of his object and the tests which these offer of his success and unsuccess.
