mescheance

Old French

Etymology

mes- +‎ cheance.

Noun

mescheance f (oblique plural mescheances, nominative singular mescheance, nominative plural mescheances)

misfortune
evil act or deed

Descendants

English: mischance (borrowed)

References

Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (mescheance)

mescheance on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

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