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Beset vs Befall - What's the difference?

beset | befall |

In transitive terms the difference between beset and befall

is that beset is to decorate something with jewels etc while befall is to happen to.

As a noun befall is

case; instance; circumstance; event; incident; accident.

befall

English

Verb

  • To happen.
  • To happen to.
  • Temptation befell me.
  • * Shakespeare
  • I beseech your grace that I may know / The worst that may befall me.
  • * {{quote-web, date=2013-04-15
  • , year= , first= , last= , author=Walter Russell Mead , authorlink= , title=The Wreck of the Euro , site=The American Interest citation , archiveorg= , accessdate=2013-04-16 , passage=As we’ve said before, with the exception of communism itself, the euro has been the biggest economic catastrophe to befall the continent (and the world) since the 1930s. }}

    Derived terms

    * befalling * misbefall

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Case; instance; circumstance; event; incident; accident.
  • * 1495 , William Caxton, Vitas Patrum :
  • Or he had tolde al his befall .
  • * 1990 , India. Parliament. House of the People, India. Parliament. Lok Sabha, Lok Sabha debates :
  • This is proposed to be done by moving necessary amendment in this befall to the Finance Bill.
  • * 1994 , Socialist Party (India), Janata: Volume 49 :
  • He said "I would advise people to cultivate frugal habits. I will not commit the crime of making them helpless by saying that they have no responsibility whatever in the befall of calamities like old age, illness, accident, etc. [...]"
  • * 1996 , Thomas Pfau, Rhonda Ray Kercsmar, Rhetorical and cultural dissolution in romanticism :
  • [...], the word "care" asserting itself subliminally in somewhat the same way that "fall" does in the "befall " of "Infant Joy."

    References

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