Befalling meaning

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Present participle of befall.
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Origin of befalling

  • From Middle English bifallinge, equivalent to befall +‎ -ing. Cognate with Dutch bevalling (“delivery, confinement”), Swedish befallning (“command, behest, charge”).

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Befalling Sentence Examples

  • Pity he finds to be grief for the calamity of others, arising from imagination of the like calamity befalling oneself; what we admire with seeming disinterestedness as beautiful (pulchrum) is really " pleasure in promise "; when men are not immediately seeking present pleasure, they desire power as a means to future pleasure, and thus have a derivative delight in the exercise of power that prompts to what we call benevolent action.

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