fortuned
English
Adjective
fortuned (comparative more fortuned, superlative most fortuned)
- Having a (with a descriptive word, particular kind of) fortune (“destiny; wealth”).
- 1741, [Samuel Richardson], “Tuesday Morning, the Sixth of My Happiness”, in Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded. […], 3rd edition, volume II, London: […] C[harles] Rivington, […]; and J. Osborn, […], →OCLC, pages 283–284:
- When the broken-fortun'd Peer goes into the City to marry a rich Tradeſman's Daughter, be he Duke or Earl, does not his Consort immediately become ennobled by his Choice?
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