infaust

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Definition of infaust

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adj

(archaic)Unlucky, unfortunate, ill-omened; unpropitious; sinister.

“Nevertheless, it was an infaust and sinister augury for Austin Caxton[.]”
“While we, alas! must still obambulate, Sequacious of the court and courtier's fate : O most infaust who optates there to live! An aulic life no solid joys can give.”

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adj

(archaic)Unlucky, unfortunate, ill-omened; unpropitious; sinister.

“Nevertheless, it was an infaust and sinister augury for Austin Caxton[.]”
“While we, alas! must still obambulate, Sequacious of the court and courtier's fate : O most infaust who optates there to live! An aulic life no solid joys can give.”
(rare)Of a prognosis: Poor, grim.

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From Latin īnfaustus, from in- (“not”) + faustus (“fortunate, lucky”).

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