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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

;

pl.

Infelicities

(#)

[L.

infelicitas

: cf. F.

infélicité

. See

not, and

The state or quality of being infelicitous; unhappiness; misery; wretchedness; misfortune; lack of suitableness or appropriateness.

I. Watts.

Whatever is the ignorance and

infelicity

of the present state, we were made wise and happy.

Glanvill.

That (as an act, word, expression, etc.) which is infelicitous;

as,

infelicities

of speech

Noun.

[L. infelicitas. See Felicity.]

Unhappiness; misfortune.

Unfortunate state; unfaborableness; as the infelicity of the times, or of the occasion.