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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1400-1650
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Unhap, n. Also: unhape, -happ(e, wnhap(e, onhap. [ME and e.m.E. unhap (c1230), vnhappe (Chaucer), ON úhapp; Hap n.1] Bad luck, misfortune. Also, an instance of this. Also, in(to) (one's) unhap, to one's detriment. Cf. Wanhap n.(1) c1400 Troy-bk. ii 2689.
Mene frome happy state sche may Cast in-to wnhap and caire c1420 Wynt. v 968.
Quhyll that this Domityane Throuch wnhape [C. wnhap] hys dede had tane 1456 Hay I 297/7.
Unhapp cummys to thes lands of quhilk the king is a barne 1492 Myll Spectakle of Luf 293/3.
Vnhape 1528 Lynd. Dreme 1117.
Bitter deith, allace, did thame persew. Frome sic vnhape I pray God thé defend 1533 Boece 100a.
With mekill vnhap and dishoneste he regnit vj ȝeris 1570 Bann. Memor. 23.
Led by the frowardnes of tyme and other vnhappe, which nochttheles most end betymes 1558-66 Knox I 113.
The cardinall had rather that the unhappe had fallen on the other parte a1605 Montg. Misc. P. xxxvi 31.
Ȝe wald do Ȝour pouer me to saive, Bot tym will not consent thairto, So grit vnhap we haif(b) 1572 Cal. Sc. P. IV 285.
Onhap(2) 1535 Stewart 48683.
Quhen this vnhap and infortunitie Of Inglismen … Onto thair prince … wes schawin 1581-1623 James VI Poems I 179/621.
Lyke … Polipus quho in unhappis doth baith her still, & … but on teares her uraith doth feede & fill(3) ?1438 Alex. ii 4033.
Into his vnhap [F. a sa male santé] he sall fecht ?1438 Alex. ii 6609.
On Tysday arly I sall fecht … And … In to thare vnhap mot it be c1650 Spalding II 349.
To his gryte vnhap, schame, and disgrace
