Scourge vs Misfortune - What's the difference?
scourge | misfortune | Related terms |
(uncountable) A source of persistent trouble such as pestilence that causes pain and suffering or widespread destruction.
A means to inflict such pain or destruction.
* Shakespeare
* {{quote-magazine, title=Towards the end of poverty
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A whip, often of leather.
* Chapman
To strike with a scourge , to flog.
(uncountable) bad luck
* 2012 , July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited,
(countable) an undesirable event such as an accident
* 1839 , Charles Robert Darwin,
Scourge is a related term of misfortune.
In uncountable|lang=en terms the difference between scourge and misfortune
is that scourge is (uncountable) a source of persistent trouble such as pestilence that causes pain and suffering or widespread destruction while misfortune is (uncountable) bad luck.As nouns the difference between scourge and misfortune
is that scourge is (uncountable) a source of persistent trouble such as pestilence that causes pain and suffering or widespread destruction while misfortune is (uncountable) bad luck.As a verb scourge
is to strike with a scourge , to flog.scourge
English
Noun
- What scourge for perjury / Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence?
citation, passage=America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}
- Up to coach then goes / The observed maid, takes both the scourge and reins.
Verb
See also
* (pedia)misfortune
English
Noun
Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track
- Cycling's complex etiquette contains an unwritten rule that riders in contention for a race win should not be penalised for sheer misfortune .
- The worst tour I have ever had the misfortune to experience.
- It was my fortune, or misfortune , to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training. - Ulysses S. Grant
The Voyage of the Beagle., Chapter X
- The snowstorm, which was the cause of their misfortune , happened in the middle of January, corresponding to our July, and in the latitude of Durham!
- She had to come to terms with a number of misfortunes .