Hypertext Webster Gateway: "fatality"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

fatality
n 1: a death resulting from an accident or a disaster; "a
decrease in the number of automobile fatalities" [syn: {human
death}]
2: the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters

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