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/fjuːˈnɛst/ · adjective
(now rare) Causing death or disaster; fatal, catastrophic; deplorable, lamentable..
I do assure you, there is nothing I have a greater scorn and indignation against, than these wretched scoffers; and I look upon our neglect of severely punishing them as an high defect in our politics, and a forerunner of something very funest.
Scarce had this unhappy Nation recover'd these funest disasters, when the abomination of Play-houses rose up in this land: From hence hath an inundation of Obscenity flow'd from the Court and overspread the Kingdom.
Funest philosophers and ponderers, Their evocations are the speech of clouds.
Flora, initially an ivory-pale, dark-haired funest beauty, whom the author transformed just in time into a third bromidic dummy with a dun bun.
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Funest means (now rare) Causing death or disaster; fatal, catastrophic; deplorable, lamentable..
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I do assure you, there is nothing I have a greater scorn and indignation against, than these wretched scoffers; and I look upon our neglect of severely punishing them as an high defect in our politics, and a forerunner of something very funest.
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