Fa·tal·i·ty n.;pl. Fatalities
  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.
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