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Definition of Fortunateness
1. n. The condition or quality of being fortunate; good luck; success; happiness.
Definition of Fortunateness
1. Noun. The quality of being fortunate; fortune; luck. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fortunateness
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Fortunateness
Literary usage of Fortunateness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the Portuguese and English Languages, in Two Parts ...by Antonio Vieyra, Jacinto Dias do Canto by Antonio Vieyra, Jacinto Dias do Canto (1827)
"Que tera fortuna, fortunate, lucky, happy. Boa fortuna, fortunateness, happiness,
good-luck, success. Faxer na fortuna, to make one's fortune. ..."
2. James Russell Lowell: A Biography by Horace Elisha Scudder (1901)
"But we shall never have that inward fortunateness without which all outward
prosperity is a cheat and delusion, till we have torn up this deadly upas, ..."
3. The Life of Thomas Jefferson by Henry Stephens Randall (1871)
"These suggestions as to the fortunateness (to himself) of the time which Mr.
Jefferson selected for his retirement have been, with great injustice to the ..."
4. Minor Poets of the Caroline Period by George Saintsbury (1905)
"... affront or trouble ; since, if their fortunateness should far exceed their
ambition, it could not any way recompense that torture for an hour, ..."
5. An Account of the Private Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase by Robert Bruce Warden (1874)
"Thus, strange spectacle! in spite of his apparent fortunateness, he was really
unfortunate—an object rather of compassion than of envy to discerning ..."
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