Fatality /(?)/

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.

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.

   By a strange fatality men suffer their dissenting.

3. That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.