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Ill-starred

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Unlucky; fated to be unfortunate. Othello says of Desdemona, “O ill-starred wench!” Of course, the allusion is to the astrological dogma that the stars influence the fortunes of mankind.

“Whereʹer that ill-starred home may lie.”


 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Ignorantines
Igrayne
Ihram
Il Pastor Fido [the Faithful Swain]
Iliad
Iliad of Ills (An)
Ilk
Ill-got, Ill-spent
Ill May-day
Ill Omens
Ill-starred
Ill Wind
Illinois
Illuminated Doctor
Illuminati
Illuminations
Illuminator
Illustrious (The)
Image of God
Images which fell from Heaven
Imaum