Fatalities

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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              The Stoics held a fatality, and a fixed, unalterable
              course of events.                     --South.
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     2. The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or
        danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility.
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              The year sixty-three is conceived to carry with it
              the most considerable fatality.       --Ser T.
                                                    Browne.
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              By a strange fatality men suffer their dissenting.
                                                    --Eikon
                                                    Basilike.
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     3. That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal
        event. --Dryden.
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