Fates
[feits]
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. pl. (Myth.) Destinies, Parc? sister goddesses (Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos).
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of the fates, unnecessary disagreements and unhappiness is foretold. For a young woman to dream of juggling with fate, denotes she will daringly interpose herself between devoted friends or lovers.
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Examples
- Yet they all had lived and died unconscious of the different fates awaiting their relics. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The fates are against you, Watson, said he, laughing. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Most of us, indeed, know little of the great originators until they have been lifted up among the constellations and already rule our fates. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The fates have not been kind to you, Eustacia Yeobright. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Or the verse 'The saddest of fates is to die and meet destiny from hunger? Plato. The Republic.
- But what you may call the Fates ordered him into it again. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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