Meanings
- nonce wordpluralplural onlyFortunes; things happening by chance.
"Ah, peradventure my head being distraught by the manifold matters whereunto the confusions of these but late adventured haps and fortunings whereby not I alone nor you alone, but every each of us, meseemeth—"
1889, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, New York, N.Y.: Charles L. Webster & Company, →OCLC1 more example
And doth he counsel not / With thee in any wise pertaining to / His ailings, or of matters looking toward / His future purposes or his intents / Regarding thine own future fortunings / And his desires and interests therein?
1887, #James Whitcomb Riley, Afterwhiles
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