ADVERSITY

ADVERS'ITY, noun An event, or series of events, which oppose success or desire; misfortune; calamity; affliction; distress; state of unhappiness.In the day of adversity consider. Ecclesiastes 7:14.Ye have rejected God, who saved you out of all you adversities. 1 Samuel 10:19.

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adversity. Adversity, n. affliction, calamity, misery, distress

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Ad‐ver″si‐ty (�), n.; pl. Adversities(�). [[OE. adversite, F. adversité, fr. L. adversitas.]] 1. 1. Opposition; contrariety. Wyclif.
Adversity is not without comforts and hopes. Bacon. Syn. — Affliction; distress; misery; disaster; trouble; suffering; trial.