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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Destiny \Des"ti*ny\, n.; pl {Destinies}. [OE. destinee, destene, F. destin['e]e, from destiner. See {Destine}.] 1. That to which any person or thing is destined; predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will fate; lot doom. Thither he Will come to know his destiny. --Shak. No man of woman born, Coward or brave, can shun his destiny. --Bryant. 2. The fixed order of things invincible necessity; fate; a resistless power or agency conceived of as determining the future, whether in general or of an individual. But who can turn the stream of destiny? --Spenser. Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. --Longfellow. {The Destinies} (Anc. Myth.), the three Parc[ae], or Fates; the supposed powers which preside over human life, and determine its circumstances and duration. Marked by the Destinies to be avoided. --Shak. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: destiny n 1: an event (or course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future [syn: {fate}] 2: the ultimate agency that predetermines the course of events (often personified as a woman); "we are helpless in the face of Destiny" [syn: {Destiny}, {Fate}] 3: your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you): "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion" [syn: {fortune}, {fate}, {luck}, {lot}, {circumstances}, {portion}] From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: DESTINY, n. A tyrant's authority for crime and fool's excuse for failure.
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