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Infelicity   Listen
noun
Infelicity  n.  (pl. infelicities)  
1.
The state or quality of being infelicitous; unhappiness; misery; wretchedness; misfortune; lack of suitableness or appropriateness. "Whatever is the ignorance and infelicity of the present state, we were made wise and happy."
2.
That (as an act, word, expression, etc.) which is infelicitous; as, infelicities of speech.





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"Infelicity" Quotes from Famous Books



... of matrimonial infelicity is the hasty marriages of persons who have no adequate knowledge of each other's characters. Two strangers become acquainted, and are attracted to each other, and without taking half the trouble to investigate or inquire that a prudent man would take before buying a saddle horse, ...
— Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners • B.G. Jefferis
... "may be true of others, since it is true of me; yet whatever be the general infelicity of man, one condition is more happy than another, and wisdom surely directs us to take the least evil in ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Volume V. • Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.
... consolations of the hart: but none greater, than such as he may vtter and discouer by some conuenient meanes: euen as to suppresse and hide a mans mirth, and not to haue therein a partaker, or at least wise a witnes, is no little griefe and infelicity. Therfore nature and ciuility haue ordained (besides the priuate solaces) publike reioisings for the comfort and recreation of many. And they be of diuerse sorts and vpon diuerse occasions growne: one & the chiefe ...
— The Arte of English Poesie • George Puttenham
... marital infelicity about which we hear so much comes from the husband's attempt to cramp his wife's ambition and to suppress her normal expression. A perversion of native instinct, a constant stifling of ambition, and the longing ...
— Pushing to the Front • Orison Swett Marden


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