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1. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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            The Stoics held a fatality, and a fixed, unalterable
            course of events.                     --South.
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   2. The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or
      danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility.
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            The year sixty-three is conceived to carry with it
            the most considerable fatality.       --Ser T.
                                                  Browne.
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            By a strange fatality men suffer their dissenting.
                                                  --Eikon
                                                  Basilike.
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   3. That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal
      event. --Dryden.
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