Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for UN-HAP'PI-NESS
UN-HAP'PI-NESS, n.
- Misfortune; ill luck. Burnet.
- Infelicity; misery. It is our great unhappiness, when any calamities fall upon us, that we are uneasy and dissatisfied. Wake. [But it usually expresses less than misery or wretchedness.]
- Mischievous prank. [Not in use.] Shak.
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