reverse+of+fortune
31reversal — Synonyms and related words: abolishment, abolition, about face, about turn, abrogation, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, afterthoughts, alchemy, alteration, amelioration, annulment, apostasy, assimilation, assumption, atavism, back track,… …
32setback — Synonyms and related words: arrest, arrestation, arrestment, atavism, backset, backsliding, backward deviation, backward motion, backward step, bafflement, balk, betrayed hope, blasted expectation, blighted hope, blockage, blocking, blow, buffet …
33throwback — Synonyms and related words: atavism, backset, backsliding, backward deviation, backward motion, backward step, check, comedown, descent, down, falling back, lapse, reaction, recession, recidivation, recidivism, recrudescence, recurrence, reentry …
34affliction — n. 1. Calamity, adversity, misfortune, disaster, visitation, stroke, ill, reverse, reverse of fortune. 2. Grief, sorrow, distress, woe, depression, tribulation, trial, plague, scourge, trouble, heartache, heartbreak, broken heart, heavy heart,… …
35Thomas Wood (bishop of Lichfield and Coventry) — Thomas Wood (1607–1692) was an English churchman, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry from 1671 to 1692. Life Thomas was the third son of Thomas Wood (1565–1649) and Susanna Cranmer (1570–1650). In then fashionable Hackney, where his grandfather… …
36Keep — (k[=e]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Kept} (k[e^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Keeping}.] [OE. k[=e]pen, AS. c[=e]pan to keep, regard, desire, await, take, betake; cf. AS. copenere lover, OE. copnien to desire.] 1. To care; to desire. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] I… …
37Keeping — Keep Keep (k[=e]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Kept} (k[e^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Keeping}.] [OE. k[=e]pen, AS. c[=e]pan to keep, regard, desire, await, take, betake; cf. AS. copenere lover, OE. copnien to desire.] 1. To care; to desire. [Obs.] [1913… …
38Kept — Keep Keep (k[=e]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Kept} (k[e^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Keeping}.] [OE. k[=e]pen, AS. c[=e]pan to keep, regard, desire, await, take, betake; cf. AS. copenere lover, OE. copnien to desire.] 1. To care; to desire. [Obs.] [1913… …
39To keep a stiff upper lip — Keep Keep (k[=e]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Kept} (k[e^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Keeping}.] [OE. k[=e]pen, AS. c[=e]pan to keep, regard, desire, await, take, betake; cf. AS. copenere lover, OE. copnien to desire.] 1. To care; to desire. [Obs.] [1913… …
40To keep at arm's length — Keep Keep (k[=e]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Kept} (k[e^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Keeping}.] [OE. k[=e]pen, AS. c[=e]pan to keep, regard, desire, await, take, betake; cf. AS. copenere lover, OE. copnien to desire.] 1. To care; to desire. [Obs.] [1913… …
