unluckie

Updated: May 8, 2025

For so much as this syllable sounded so unpleasantly in their eares, and this voice seemed so ill boding and unluckie, the Romans had learned to allay and dilate the same by a Periphrasis. In liew of saying, he is dead, or he hath ended his daies, they would say, he hath lived.

Michel de Montaigne - Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian