To violate, as “to fall from hisʹ word;” to tumble or slip off, as “to fall from a horse;” to abandon or go away from, as “to fall from grace.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.