The Only Use
adversity
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The Scarlet Letter
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- If, heretofore, I had been none of the warmest of partisans I began now, at this season of peril and adversity, to be pretty acutely sensible with which party my predilections lay; nor was it without something like regret and shame that, according to a reasonable calculation of chances, I saw my own prospect of retaining office to be better than those of my democratic brethren.†
p. 40.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(adversity) an unfortunate state or event
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)