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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.

Definition 2024


fatality

fatality

English

Noun

fatality (plural fatalities)

  1. The state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.
  2. Tendency to death, destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate.
  3. That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.
    • William Wilkie Collins
      What can I say, or think of this most terrible of fatalities?
  4. Death.
  5. An accident that causes death.
    • 2011, David Foster Wallace, The Pale King, page 13:
      the whole thing felt like being in a near traffic fatality avoided by inches and later not being able to think of the whole thing lest you begin shaking...
  6. (video games) A move where one character kills another.

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