destiny
/ˈdɛs.tɪ.ni/ noun B2- That to which any person or thing is destined; a predetermined or inevitable eventual state; a condition predestined by the Divine or by human will. · Death is the destiny of all mortal men.
- One's eventual fate (not necessarily inevitable or predestined).
- The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; an irresistible power or agency conceived of as determining the future, whether in general or of an individual.
Plural destinies
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We figured that in twenty years each of us ought to have our destiny worked out and our fortunes made, whatever they were going to be.”
The Barry garden was a bowery wilderness of flowers which would have delighted Anne’s heart at any time less fraught with destiny.
You’ve thwarted destiny enough.
The greatest schemer of all time, the organizer of every deviltry, the controlling brain of the underworld, a brain which might have made or marred the destiny of nations—that’s the man!
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