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Adversity   /ædvˈərsɪti/  /ədvˈərsɪti/   Listen
noun
Adversity  n.  (pl. adversities)  
1.
Opposition; contrariety. (Obs.) "Adversity is not without comforts and hopes."
Synonyms: Affliction; distress; misery; disaster; trouble; suffering; trial.





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"Adversity" Quotes from Famous Books



... brightly on Christmas morning, it betokens prosperity during the year; if it smoulders, adversity ...
— The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought • Alexander F. Chamberlain
... dark luxurious hair broke into a riot of fluffy little curls about her forehead, and thence waved richly away to where it was massed behind; her cheeks glowed with a lovely colour (thanks, doubtless, to Yorkshire breezes; sweet are the uses of adversity); her eyes sparkled; her lips curved in a perpetual play of smiles, letting her delicate little teeth show themselves furtively; and suddenly I realised that this girl, whom I had never thought of save as one ...
— Grey Roses • Henry Harland
... L. It is the last blow for her. The fate of some of us is as it were a medal on which are struck the image and superscription of sorrow. Adversity has worked so well that there is no room for any symbol of joy. But I think that this dedication of a life to grief is not unaccompanied by a secret compensation in the conviction that misfortune is at last complete; it is something to reach ...
— Letters of a Soldier - 1914-1915 • Anonymous
... adversity is this?" cried Mian, pressing to Ling with a still closer embrace. "Having disposed of your incomparable body after death, surely an adequate amount of liberty and seclusion remains ...
— The Wallet of Kai Lung • Ernest Bramah
... are described as more dignified and self-respecting. Siegfried flogged his wife black and blue.[1231] Brunhild was also beaten by her husband. The women manifest great devotion to their husbands, especially in adversity, even fighting for them like men.[1232] We are constantly shocked at the bad taste of behavior. At Lubeck, if a young widow was married, the crowd made an uproar in front of the house and the bridegroom was forced to stand at show ...
— Folkways - A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals • William Graham Sumner


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