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Definition
unlucky or unfortunate — often making others feel pity
- His daughter it is that holds the hapless man in sorrow: and ever with soft and guileful tales she is wooing him to forgetfulness of Ithaca.Prefaces (44% in)
- But my heart is rent for wise Odysseus, the hapless one, who far from his friends this long while suffereth affliction in a sea-girt isle, where is the navel of the sea, a woodland isle, and therein a goddess hath her habitation, the daughter of the wizard Atlas, who knows the depths of every sea, and himself upholds the tall pillars which keep earth and sky asunder.Prefaces (42% in)
There are no more uses of "hapless" in The Odyssey by Homer - (translated by: Butler).
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