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Webster 1828 Edition

Unhappiness

UNHAP'PINESS

, n.

1.

Misfortune; ill luck.

2.

Infelicity; misery.

It is our great unhappiness, when any calamities fall upon us, that we are uneasy and dissatisfied.

[But it usually expresses less than misery or wretchedness.]

3.

Mischievous prank. [Not in use.]