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▪ I. ˈdownfalling, vbl. n.
The act of falling down; downfall; † setting.
a1300E.E. Psalter li. 6 Þou loved alle wordes of doun fallinge [L. praecipitationis]. 1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 6576 Hate teres of gretyng, That the synful sal scalden in the dounfallyng. 1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) II. 331 Ane [comet] schane ay afore the sonne-rising, and this othir afore his downfalling. 1826E. Irving Babylon II. vi. 97 He sent..Jeremiah..before the downfalling of destruction.
▪ II. ˈdownfalling, ppl. a.
Falling down; also fig. declining, decaying.
[a1300E.E. Psalter xvii. 9 Koles þat ware doun falland Kindled ere of him glouand.] 1590C. S. Right Religion 14 The downfalling pride of the Pope. 1659D. Pell Impr. Sea 408 The Seamans high soaring sursums, and his down⁓falling deorsums. 1886A. Winchell Geol. Field 60 A downfalling mass of vapour. |
