good fortune

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good fortune

noun good fortunes

uncountable, usually Good luck. While an undergraduate at Mount Holyoke, she had the good fortune to take a creative-writing class at nearby Hampshire College with James Baldwin, who suggested she try playwriting, and, even though she feared he was just trying to politely steer her away from prose, she did.
countable, usually An instance of good luck. These deeply significant motifs of the perils, obstacles, and good fortunes of the way, we shall find inflected through the following pages in a hundred forms.
uncountable, usually Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see good, fortune. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

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@misc{good_fortune_2026,
  title = {good fortune},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/good%20fortune},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}