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Webster 1913 Edition
Fatality
Fa-tal′i-ty
,Noun.
pl.
Fatalities
(#)
. [L.
fatalitas
: cf. F. fatalité
] 1.
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.
2.
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.
3.
That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.
Dryden.
Webster 1828 Edition
Fatality
FATAL'ITY
, n.1.
A fixed unalterable course of things, independent of God or any controlling cause; an invincible necessity existing in things themselves; a doctrine of the Stoics.2.
Decree of fate.3.
Tendency to danger, or to some great or hazardous event.4.
Mortality.