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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... a fatality of this sort in your conduct," responded Varhely, coldly, "and that your lackey did not understand your commands: the deed which you committed was none the less that of a coward. You used as a weapon the letters of a woman, and of a woman whom you had ...

— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet

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... the enterprise contemplated has aroused and will doubtless continue to excite a very general interest throughout the country. In its political, its commercial, and its military bearings it has varied, great, and increasing claims to consideration. The heavy expense, the great delay, and, at times, fatality attending travel by either of the Isthmus routes have demonstrated the advantage which would result from interterritorial communication by such safe and rapid means as a railroad ...

— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... and men had conspired against the cotton spindles; yet Antunano persevered. Fresh machinery was ordered; and though by another fatality it was detained, owing to the blockade of the ports by the French squadron, seven thousand spindles were landed, and speedily put in operation. Others have followed the example of Seor Antunano, who has given a decided impulse to industry in Puebla, besides a most extraordinary ...

— Life in Mexico • Frances Calderon de la Barca

... more strange than I dare tell you, mother dear," Lois added to the letter of details which she wrote at odd minutes during the day, "that that poor old man should have broken down just at our door. There was a kind of fatality in it, as if he had come to throw himself at our feet. The son would have gone on if his father had been able to drag himself another yard; but he wasn't. It was all we could do to get him up the portico steps and into ...

— The Side Of The Angels - A Novel • Basil King

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