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noun

Fatality n. (pl. fatalities)

The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. "The Stoics held a fatality, and a fixed, unalterable course of events."

The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility. "The year sixty-three is conceived to carry with it the most considerable fatality." "By a strange fatality men suffer their dissenting."

That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.

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Etymology of 'Fatality'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fatality" Quotes from Famous Books

... by any fatality be withdrawn, the commission believe that the government of the Philippines would speedily lapse into anarchy, which would excuse, if it did not necessitate, the intervention of other powers and the eventual division of the islands among them. Only through American ...

— The Philippines: Past and Present (vol. 1 of 2) • Dean C. Worcester

... journey, for which they reproach themselves at night. Let this new fatality be never so urgent, this fire be never so torturing, the Saints themselves never so powerless; still, have not the indictment of the Templars and the proceedings of Pope Boniface unveiled the Sodom lying hid beneath the altar? But a ...

— La Sorciere: The Witch of the Middle Ages • Jules Michelet

... even than the day when Publius Valerius the consul fell, if you shall pass it. Now, first of all," said he, "Quirites, it is the intention of myself and of my colleague to march the legions against the Volscians and the Aequans. I know not by what fatality we find the gods more propitious when we are at war than in peace. How great the danger from those states would have been, had they known that the Capitol was besieged by exiles, it is better to conjecture from what is past, than ...

— Roman History, Books I-III • Titus Livius

... had the corpse of Virginio sent to Carlo Orsini and Vitellozzo Vitelli, as he could not send him alive. By a strange fatality the prisoner had died, eight days before the treaty was signed, of the same malady—at least, if we may judge by analogy—that had carried off ...

— The Borgias - Celebrated Crimes • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... Picton's account, that I had distinguished myself in the breach; and yet nothing was more clear than that my conduct had displeased the commander-in-chief. Picturing him ever to my mind's eye as the beau ideal of a military leader, by some fatality of fortune I was continually incurring his displeasure, for whose praise I would have risked my life. "And this confounded costume—What, in the name of every absurdity, could have ever persuaded me to put it on. What signifies it, though a man should cover ...

— Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 (of 2) • Charles Lever

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