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Definition of Fatality

Fatality The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility. That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event. Related Definitions: And, As, Being, By, Control, Danger, Decree, Decreed, Destiny, Destruction, Event, Fatal, Fate, Free, From, If, Independent, Invincible, Is, Necessity, Of, Or, Proceeding, Rational, State, Superior, Tendency, That, The, To, Which

Fatality Quotations Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist. Charles de Secondat They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings? Charles de Secondat For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph. Thomas Mann On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality! Jules Verne Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality. Mathieu Kerekou

Fatality Translations fatality in Norwegian is skjebnebestemt, ulykke fatality in Spanish is fatalidad

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