unhap

English

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English unhap, onhap, equivalent to un- (“lack of”) +‎ hap (“fortune”).

Noun

unhap (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Ill luck; misfortune.
   • a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the page number)”, in Fulke Greville, Matthew Gwinne, and John Florio, editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC; republished in Albert Feuillerat, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (Cambridge English Classics: The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; I), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1912, →OCLC:

     the cause of her unhap

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “unhap”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Middle English

Alternative forms

• unhapp, unhappe, onhap, onhappe, onhape

Etymology

Equivalent to un- (“lack of”) +‎ hap (“luck”).

Noun

unhap (plural unhappes)

1. misfortune, ill luck

Descendants

• English: unhap

References

• “unhap, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.