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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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