2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fatality \Fa*tal"i*ty\, n.;pl. {Fatalities}. [L. fatalitas: cf
F. fatalit['e]]
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
fatality
n 1: a death resulting from an accident or a disaster; "a
decrease in the number of automobile fatalities" [syn: {human
death}]
2: the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters
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