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fortuity|fɔːˈtjuːɪtɪ| [irreg. f. L. fortuitus: see fortuitous and -ity.] Fortuitous character, fortuitousness; accident, chance; an accidental occurrence. Occasionally used for: Appearance of fortuitousness or unstudiedness.
a1747D. Forbes Incredulity 80 How they can be sure, that those deserved judgments were the effect of mere fortuity. 1790Paley Horæ Paul. Wks. 1825 III. 194 Forgeries confirming and falling in with one another by a species of fortuity. 1829I. Taylor Enthus. vi. (1867) 110 It is by the fortuities of life that the religious enthusiast is deluded. 1860Reade Cloister & H. II. 245 One of the company, by some immense fortuity, could read. 1860Geo. Eliot Mill on Fl. i. vii, She looks..at her bracelets, and adjusts their clasps with that pretty studied fortuity which [etc.]. 1885J. Martineau Types Eth. Th. (1886) II. ii. i. 372 Nothing that might not happen in a universe of fortuity. |