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fatalist|ˈfeɪtəlɪst|
[f. as prec. + -ist. Cf. Fr. fataliste.]
1. One who holds the doctrine of fatalism; one who believes that all things happen by inevitable necessity.
1650R. Gell Serm. 8 Aug. 38 The most notorious Fatalists. 1722Wollaston Relig. Nat. v. 105 They [the ancients] were generally fatalists. 1887T. Fowler Princ. Morals ii. ix, The Fatalist, as distinguished from the Determinist, imagines himself to be completely at the mercy of some external power.
2. One whose conduct is regulated by fatalism; one who accepts every event as an inevitable necessity.
a1734North Lives III. 61 It is commonly known that the Turks are fatalists. 1763Scrafton Indostan (1770) 115 Those who know what strong fatalists these eastern people are. 1848Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 185 The confidence which the heroic fatalist placed in his high destiny. 1883Ouida Wanda I. 202 ‘What a fatalist you are.’
3. attrib. or adj. = next.
1843J. Martineau Chr. Life (1867) 407 Every Fatalist..scheme destroys merit. 1850Kingsley Alt. Locke i, He preached ‘higher doctrine’, i.e., more fatalist and antinomian than his gentler colleague. 1865Cornh. Mag. Apr. 403 The fatalist resignation..now quieted him. 1874M. E. Herbert Hübner's Ramble ii. ii. (1878) 513 The moral basis of society lies in a fatalist submission. |