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Misadventure

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An accidental mishap or misfortune. uncountable, usually

    "It is said that every life has its roses and thorns; there seemed, however, to have been a misadventure or mistake in Stephen's case, whereby somebody else had become possessed of his roses, and he had become possessed of the same somebody else's thorns in addition to his own."

  2. 2
    an instance of misfortune wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English misaventure, from Old French mesaventure, equivalent to mis- + adventure.

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