Fatality \Fa*tal"i*ty\, n.;pl. Fatalities. [L. fatalitas: cf.
F. fatalit['e]]
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 Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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