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befal (third-person singular simple present befals, present participle befaling, simple past befel, past participle befalen)
- Obsolete form of befall.
1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:Another misfortune which befel poor Sophia was the company of Lord Fellamar, whom she met at the opera, and who attended her to the drum.
1811, [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Sense and Sensibility , volume III, London: C Roworth, , and published by T Egerton, , →OCLC, page 84:[…] they parted, with a very earnest assurance on her side of her unceasing good wishes for his happiness in every change of situation that might befal him; […]
1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, “The Beginning of a Long Journey”, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, , published 1850, →OCLC, page 334:He promised to communicate with me, when anything befel him; and he slung his bag about him, took his hat and stick, and bade us both “Good bye!”
1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman:I only hoped that whatever was to befal me might soon be over, for the tension of nerve was growing more than I could bear.
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