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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Adversity \Ad*ver"si*ty\, n.; pl {Adversities}. [OE. adversite
F. adversit['e], fr L. adversitas.]
1. Opposition; contrariety. [Obs.] --Wyclif.
Adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
--Bacon.
Syn: Affliction; distress; misery; disaster; trouble;
suffering; trial.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
adversity
n 1: a state of misfortune or affliction: "debt-ridden farmers
struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship" [syn: {hardship}]
2: a stroke of ill fortune; a calamitous event: "a period
marked by adversities"
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