downfal

plural downfals

1. countableobsoleteuncountableObsolete form of downfall.

   I was wondering, in my own mind, whether the day of his downfal had come at last, and whether you were the chosen instrument for working it.

   1860, Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

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   Look at the arduous exertion required of middle life; the thronging anxieties that spring up for others more than for ourselves; the constant downfal of our best-laid projects; the disappointment attending on the result of those which had mocked us with success; […]

   1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 312