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Midfall vs Misfall - What's the difference?

midfall | misfall |

As nouns the difference between midfall and misfall

is that midfall is while misfall is a mishap; accident; bad luck; misfortune.

As a verb misfall is

to fall badly or incorrectly; happen unfortunately (to); mishappen; turn out badly.

midfall

English

Noun

    • misfall

    English

    Verb

  • To fall badly or incorrectly; happen unfortunately (to); mishappen; turn out badly.
  • *1889 , Henry Morley, Early prose romances :
    • [...] let us abide together that, one with the counsel and that other with the deed, then may there nothing misfall to usward.
  • *2009 , Eric B. Hare, Skyscrapers :
    • However, the principal and his students worked hard, and they soon had the buildings in shape for use and the farm doing as well as possible. Then a terrible misfortune misfell one of the neighbors who was most bitter in his tirades.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A mishap; accident; bad luck; misfortune.
  • *1875 , Julian Hawthorne, Saxon studies :
    • But alas! an unlooked- for misfall has occurred."