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mischance

[ mis-chans, -chahns ]

noun

  1. a mishap or misfortune.


mischance

/ ³¾Éª²õˈ³Ùʃɑ˲Բõ /

noun

  1. bad luck
  2. a stroke of bad luck
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of mischance1

1250–1300; mis- 1 + chance; replacing Middle English mescheance < Old French
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In Geoffrey Chaucer's famous Canterbury Tales, written in the 14th Century, he said: "And on a Friday fell all this mischance".

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Like Paul Stover, many have simply decided not to decide for now, hoping that some combination of age, legal drama or mischance might avert a rematch they dread.

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He concludes that “for all their focus on random mischance, nothing in the brothers’ vise-tight, magisterially engineered movies could possibly be happening by accident.â€

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Much about a buzzy evening served to remind an observer of the role that chance and mischance play in any Hollywood success.

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But equally, without exception, so that no one felt shut out by some irrelevant mischance of birth.

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