befal

See also: befäl

English

Verb

befal (third-person singular simple present befals, present participle befaling, simple past befel, past participle befalen)

  1. 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[harles] Roworth, [], and published by T[homas] 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; []
    • 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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