Mishappen vs Misshapen - What's the difference?
mishappen | misshapen |
(obsolete) To encounter grief or misfortune.
To happen through misfortune.
*1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.iii:
*:His fearefull friends weare out the wofull night, / Ne dare to weepe, nor seeme to vnderstand / The heauie hap, which on them is alight, / Affraid, least to themselues the like mishappen might.
To happen ill; fare ill.