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FATALITIES
Noun
fatalities
plural of fatality
Source: Wiktionary
FATALITY
Fa*tal"i*ty, n.;pl. Fatalities. Etym: [L. fatalitas: cf. F. fatalité]
1. The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. The Stoics held a fatality, and a fixed, unalterable course of events. South.
2. The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility. The year sixty-three is conceived to carry with it the most considerable fatality. Ser T. Browne. By a strange fatality men suffer their dissenting. Eikon Basilike.
3. That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event. Dryden.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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