fatality
/feɪˈtælɪti/ noun C1- The state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.
- Tendency to death, destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate.
- That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.
- Death.
- An accident that causes death.
- A person killed.
- A move used to deliver a coup de grâce to a defeated opponent.
Plural fatalities
From the library
The Fox by a strange fatality rushed to the fields of the Farmer who had captured him.
“Sire, it is fatality!” murmured the minister, feeling that the pressure of circumstances, however light a thing to destiny, was too much for any human strength to endure.
Oh, yes, sir, you are right—it is fatality!”
“Monsieur,” said the steward, “it is fatality, I am sure.
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