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Definition
an unfortunate state or event- families struggling with adversity
- a period marked by adversities
- True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity...George Washington
- Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.Abraham Lincoln
- Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.Cicero
- Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.Socrates
- If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.Anne Bradstreet
- In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.John Churton Collins
- A wretched soul, bruis'd with adversity,William Shakespeare -- The Comedy of Errors
- I am accustomed to adversity.Dumas, Alexandre -- The Count of Monte Cristo
- His hour is one of darkness, and adversity, and peril.Hawthorne, Nathaniel -- From Twice Told Tales
- There was one man there who had fallen on adversity, and to him she had given board and lodging for several months.Maugham, W. Somerset -- Moon and Sixpence
- ...her courage rose to support her in her adversity.Shelley, Mary -- Frankenstein
- Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.Chilo
- Adversity does teach who your real friends are.Lois McMaster Bujold -- A Civil Campaign
- Had the hour of adversity come?Verne, Jules -- Around The World In Eighty Days
- Sharers of Wilfred's dangers and adversity, they remained, as they had a right to expect, the partakers of his more prosperous career.Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
- But Mom acted like her normal self—nonchalant in the face of adversity.Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle
- And as he grew old and achy, he taught me about optimism in the face of adversity.John Grogan -- Marley & Me
- It is from the Bible, too—the Tenth Psalm: 'He hath said in his heart, I shall not he moved, for I shall never be in adversity.'Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy
adversity = hardship (an unfortunate state)