infelicity

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

INFELIC'ITY, noun [Latin infelicitas. See Felicity.] Unhappiness; misfortune. 1. Unfortunate state; unfaborableness; as the infelicity of the times, or of the occasion.
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