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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

... withdraws always its own simple, necessary, measurable quantity of wealth from the sum possessed by the community, yet, in proportion to the size of the community, it does another and more refined mischief than this, by concealing its own fatality under aspects of mercantile complication and expediency, and giving rise to multitudes of false theories based on a mean belief in narrow and immediate appearances of good done here and there by things which have the universal and everlasting nature of evil. So that the time and powers ...

— A Joy For Ever - (And Its Price in the Market) • John Ruskin

... becomes interested in this Hospital; he finds it still going on, precisely as it did in the old days; and all the character and life of the establishment must be picturesquely described. Here he gets acquainted with an old man, an inmate of the Hospital, who (if the uncontrollable fatality of the story will permit) must have an active influence on the ensuing events. I suppose him to have been an American, but to have fled his country and taken refuge in England; he shall have been a man of the ...

— The Ancestral Footstep (fragment) - Outlines of an English Romance • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... facts of life with that equanimity and fatality acquired by one long versed in the cruel annals of forest lore. Bad men worked their evil just as savage wolves relayed a deer. He had shot wolves for that trick. With men, good or bad, he had not clashed. Old women ...

— The Man of the Forest • Zane Grey

... should perish heroically. They have perished! They have faced their destiny; they have realised the sole end which Spain looked for, in this desperate conflict into which she has been drawn by God knows what blind fatality; they have ...

— Spanish Life in Town and Country • L. Higgin and Eugene E. Street

... could not move either way. When at last he did extricate himself and managed to reach the place where he had seen Antoinette, she was gone: she had struggled vainly against the human torrent that carried her along: then she yielded to it—gave up the struggle. She felt that she was dogged by some fatality which forbade the possibility of her ever meeting Christophe: against Fate there was nothing to be done. And when she did succeed in escaping from the crowd, she made no attempt to go back: she was suddenly ashamed: what could she dare to say to him? ...

— Jean Christophe: In Paris - The Market-Place, Antoinette, The House • Romain Rolland

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