01 n. The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.
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Fatalities ((#))
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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.” — South.
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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.” — Ser T. Browne.“By a strange fatality men suffer their dissenting.” — Eikon Basilike.
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That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.