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Mishappen vs Misfall - What's the difference?

mishappen | misfall |

In lang=en terms the difference between mishappen and misfall

is that mishappen is to happen ill; fare ill while misfall is to fall badly or incorrectly; happen unfortunately (to); mishappen; turn out badly.

As verbs the difference between mishappen and misfall

is that mishappen is (obsolete) to encounter grief or misfortune while misfall is to fall badly or incorrectly; happen unfortunately (to); mishappen; turn out badly.

As a noun misfall is

a mishap; accident; bad luck; misfortune.

mishappen

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (obsolete) To encounter grief or misfortune.
  • To happen through misfortune.
  • *1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.iii:
  • *:His fearefull friends weare out the wofull night, / Ne dare to weepe, nor seeme to vnderstand / The heauie hap, which on them is alight, / Affraid, least to themselues the like mishappen might.
  • To happen ill; fare ill.

    • 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."