Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for MIS-CHANCE
MIS-CEN'TERMIS-CHAR'AC-TER-IZE
MIS-CHANCE, n.
Ill luck; ill fortune; misfortune; mishap; misadventure. It is a man's unhappiness, his mischance or calamity, but not his fault. South.
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