Meanings
nounevilfare (uncountable)
- rareuncountableIll-success; misfortune.
That a greate power ther is in foꝛtune, on eyther ſide, either for welfare, or euillfare: who is ignoꝛaunt?
1556, Marcus Tullius Cicero, translated by Nicholas Grimalde, Marcus Tullius Ciceroes thꝛe bokes of duties to Marcus his sonne, London: Richard Tottel, translation of De Officiis (in Latin), folio 69, verso1 more example
True, we've always had the sordid working their evilfare before the web. Now, however, it is the speed with which both the good and the bad can rush to aid the common good, as well as to unravel it.
2014 January 23, Mark Y. Herring, Are Libraries Obsolete? An Argument for Relevance in the Digital Age, Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company Inc., Publishers, →ISBN, page 50
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Origin
From evil + fare. Compare warfare.
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