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Webster 1913 Edition


Unsuccess

Unˊsuc-cess′

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Noun.
Want of success; failure; misfortune.
Prof. Wilson.

Definition 2024


unsuccess

unsuccess

English

Noun

unsuccess (countable and uncountable, plural unsuccesses)

  1. A lack of success
    • 1939, W. H. Auden, "In Memory of W. B. Yeats," lines 58-61:
      With the farming of a verse
      Make a vineyard of the curse,
      Sing of human unsuccess
      In a rapture of distress;