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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[Pref.

dis-

adventure

: cf. OF.

desaventure

Misfortune; mishap.

[Obs.]

Sir W. Raleigh.

Noun.

Misfortune. [Not used.]

disadventure ‎(plural disadventures)

(obsolete) Misadventure, misfortune.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.xii:
  They passing by, a goodly Ship did see, / Laden from far with precious merchandize, / And brauely furnished, as ship might bee, / Which through great disauenture, or mesprize, / Her selfe had runne into that hazardize [...].