Meanings
verbbefortune (third-person singular simple present befortunes, present participle befortuning, simple past and past participle befortuned)
present singular third person befortunes · participle present befortuning · participle past befortuned · past befortuned
- datedpoetictransitiveTo befall; to happen to.
I wish all good befortune you.
c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]
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