Obs. [UN-1 12. Cf. ON. úhapp (Icel. óhapp, Norw. dial. uhapp), and WANHAP.]
1. Misfortune, mishap.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 120. Mislikunge wiðuten—ase sitnesse, meseise, scheome, vnhep.
c. 1325. Body & Soul, 257, in Map’s Poems (Camden), 343. What eyleth the, thou grimli gaast? That me thus breidest of myn unhap.
c. 1384. Chaucer, H. Fame, 89. [To] shelde hem fro pouerte and shonde And fro vnhappe and eche disese.
1412–20. Lydg., Chron. Troy, III. 5099. For of þe cite, sothly, and þe toun, His vnhap were endeles ruyne.
c. 1440. Gesta Rom., xxxiii. 129. I have thorow vnhappe slayn a man.
c. 1489. Caxton, Sonnes of Aymon, i. 38. Your sone is ded by grete unhappe.
1523. Ld. Berners, Froiss., I. 521. This was the ende of yuan, or Owen, of Wales,… slayne by great vnhap and treason.
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, II. xvi. Sometime to visit that place, where first she was so happy as to see the cause of her vnhap.
2. With pl. A misfortune or mishap.
c. 1230. Hali Meid., 29. Ne mei na worldlich unhap bireauen ham hare weole.
a. 1250. Owl & Night., 1267. Naueþ mon no sikerhede Þat he ne may wene & adrede Þat sum vnhap neih him beo.
13[?]. E. E. Allit. P., B. 892. Þay wern wakned … or on þe vglokest vnhap þat euer on erd suffred.
1390. Gower, Conf., II. 36. Thei … to the god for helpe criden Of suche unhappes as betyden.
c. 1440. York Myst., xviii. 152. That no myscheue on hym betyde, Nor none vnhappe.
1559. Mirr. Mag. (1562), A a vj. Al which unhappes that they were not foreseene, I was in fault.
3. attrib. or as adj. = UNHAPPY a.
1509. Hawes, Past. Pleas. (Percy Soc.), 82. Now all my desteny Unhap and happy, upon you doth growe. Ibid., 137. This unhap love had his mynde so broken.
