Fatality
[fə'tælɪtɪ;feɪ-] or [fə'tæləti]
Definition
(noun.) the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters.
(noun.) a death resulting from an accident or a disaster; 'a decrease in the number of automobile fatalities'.
Typist: Sanford--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.
(n.) The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility.
(n.) That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Destiny, fate, inevitable necessity.[2]. Mortality.
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Examples
- Everything,' returned Lightwood impatiently, 'seems, by a fatality, to bring us round to Lizzie. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- By a strange fatality Juliet alone escaped, and she to the last waited on her relatives, and smoothed the pillow of death. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Its success, however, was marred by the first railroad fatality, for it ran over and killed a man on this occasion. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- You travelled to seek happiness, but a fatality seems to pursue you. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Yes, that was ever the hour of fatality at Thornfield. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- A terrible sense of fatality robbed her of all feeling and thought. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It is my conviction, or my delusion, no matter which, that crime brings its own fatality with it. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The same fatality which had made me just one day too late in calling on Sergeant Cuff, made me again one day too late in calling on Godfrey. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- But the principle always failed us by some curious fatality, and we never could hit any medium between redness and cinders. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He had the sense that whatever she said was uttered in the vision of a fatality that kept them apart. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- She takes her sewing occasionally; but, by some fatality, she is doomed never to sit steadily at it for above five minutes at a time. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- There WAS a fatality in it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- There was a fatality about it, as if it were bound to be. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- These things happen so oddly sometimes,' said Bella with a steady countenance, 'that there seems a kind of fatality in them. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It seemed like a fatality! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The mine-owners in some cases so ught to suppress the news of fatalities. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Believe that they are not all mercenary, although I have, through a series of strange fatalities, faded out of my place in life. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- All miners were equipped with either the Davy lamp or the Geordie lamp, as the other was called, and the mine fatalities from fire-damp immediately decreased. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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