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  1. Downfalnoun

    Etymology: down and fall.

    Why do’st thou say king Richard is depos’d?
    Dar’st thou, thou little better thing than earth,
    Divine his downfal? William Shakespeare, Richard II.

    We have seen some, by the ways by which they had designed to rise uncontrollably, to have directly procured their utter downfal. Robert South, Sermons.

    Each downfal of a flood the mountains pour
    From their rich bowels, rolls a silver stream. John Dryden, Ind. Em.

    Not more aghast the matrons of renown,
    When tyrant Nero burn’d th’ imperial town,
    Shriek’d for the downfal in a doleful cry,
    For which their guiltless lords were doom’d to die. Dryden.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of downfal in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of downfal in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

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