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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

;

pl.

Adversities

[OE.

adversite

, F.

adversité

, fr. L.

adversitas

Opposition; contrariety.

[Obs.]

Wyclif.

Adversity

is not without comforts and hopes.

Bacon.

Syn. – Affliction; distress; misery; disaster; trouble; suffering; trial.

Noun.

An event, or series of events, which oppose success or desire; misfortune; calamity; affliction; distress; state of unhappiness.

In the day of adversity, consider. Eccl. 7.

Ye have rejected God, who saved you out of all you adversities. 1Sam. 10.