Misadventure; bad luck or an unfortunate event or outcome.
From dis- (prefix meaning 'bad, not favorable') + venture (from Old French aventure, meaning 'chance occurrence' or 'luck'). This archaic word parallels the more common 'misadventure'.
Medieval and Renaissance writers used 'disventure' to describe when luck turned bad—shipwrecks and other disasters were considered disventures, showing how people once saw fortune as a force that could flip from good to bad.
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