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单词 fatality
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fatalityn.

Brit. /fəˈtalᵻti/, /feɪˈtalᵻti/, U.S. /feɪˈtælədi/, /fəˈtælədi/
Etymology: < French fatalité, < late Latin fātālitātem , < fātālis fatal adj.: see -ity suffix.
1.
a. The quality or condition of being predetermined by or subject to fate or destiny; subjection to fate, as attributed to the universe generally; the agency of fate or necessity, conceived as determining the course of events.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > [noun]
weirdc888
whatec1200
fortunea1300
cuta1340
destinyc1374
fatec1374
destin1590
jade1594
fatalitya1631
ananke1860
the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > [noun] > predestination
foresettinga1300
destiningc1300
ordainingc1350
ordinationc1450
pre-ordinance1486
destinacy1490
predestination?1503
pre-ordination1527
foreordinance1530
predefinition?1548
fore-appointing1589
destination1598
ordainment1605
foreordination1620
predeterminationa1628
fatalitya1631
destinating1633
predesignationa1641
foreordaining1667
preordainmenta1847
pre-appointment1850
pre-election1860
foreordainment1879
providentialism1927
a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1956) VIII. 165 We banish from thence, all imaginary fatality.
1665 J. Glanvill Sciri Tuum: Authors Defense 29 in Scepsis Scientifica To suppose every action of the Will to depend upon a previous Appetite or Passion, is to destroy our Liberty, and to inferr a Stoical Fatality.
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. i. 7 The Will of Man..may contract upon it self such Necessities and Fatalities, as it cannot upon a suddain rid it self of at pleasure.
1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. i. 13 The blind impulses of Fatality and Fortune.
1702 Eng. Theophrastus 276 Marriages are governed..by an over-ruling fatality.
1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. vi. 105 A Fatality, supposed consistent with what we certainly experience, does not destroy the Proof of an intelligent Author and Governor of Nature.
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. iii. 264 An irresistible force, a something we cannot explain nor account for its existence..we call a Fatality.
b. figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > necessity > [noun] > inevitability
unavoidableness1599
unescapableness1610
inevitablenessa1631
inavoidableness1640
indeclinableness1648
inevitability1649
fatation1652
uninterruptibleness1654
necessitude1677
fatality1699
resistlessness1794
unavoidability1858
unpreventableness1884
ineluctability1943
inescapability1945
the world > existence and causation > occurrence > future events > [noun] > destiny or fate
whatec1200
gracec1325
destiny1340
portionc1350
sortc1405
weird1508
dolec1520
foredoom1563
fate1667
destinate1675
fatality1699
kismet1849
ultimatum1861
foredestiny1872
ming1937
1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 299 There was..a kind of Fatality in his Errors.
1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk (1869) 2nd Ser. iv. 83 There is a fatality about our affairs.
1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales II. 61 The Viceroy..as fatality would have it, was struck.
c. A decree of fate.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > [noun] > a decree of fate
ordinance1340
weirda1400
pre-ordinance1486
foreordinance1530
fore-purpose1551
ordainment1605
foreordination1620
fatality1763
1763 A. Tucker Freewill §42. 192 If he sows oats in his field, does he think anything of a fatality against his reaping wheat or barley?
d. That which a person or thing is fated to; a destined condition or position, a destiny.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > occurrence > future events > [noun] > destiny or fate > a destiny
weirdc725
sorta1325
fatality1589
fate1768
the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > [noun] > that which is ordained by fate > personal destiny or one's lot
lotOE
chance1297
fallc1300
weirds1320
cuta1340
fatec1374
vie1377
parta1382
foredoom1563
event1577
allotment1586
fatality1589
kincha1600
lines1611
fortunea1616
dispensation1704
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. xi. sig. ivv I tooke them both for a good boding, and very fatallitie to her Maiestie.
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xxix. 408 Our fatalitie, which it lieth not in vs to avoide or advance.
1648 P. Sterry Clouds 35 He cannot discerne..the Fatality of Persons and Kingdomes.
1692 R. L'Estrange Fables 95 All the Father's Precaution could not Secure the Son from the Fatality of Dying by a Lyon.
1860 W. Collins Woman in White x. 52 A fatality that it was hopeless to avoid.
e. Used for: Belief in fatality; fatalism.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > [noun] > fatalism
fatality1673
fatalism1678
predestinationism1874
1673 H. Hickman Hist. Quinq-articularis 12 I do not find him..charged with Fatality.
2. The condition of being doomed by fate; predestined liability to disaster.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [noun] > misfortune or ill-luck > condition of being doomed to disaster
fatality1654
the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > [noun] > predestination > to disaster
predamnation1626
fatality1654
1654 E. Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 116 Ther is a strange fatality..attends all our intentiones and designes.
1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. viii. 52 There [is] a fatality attending every measure you are concerned in.
1871 W. H. Ainsworth Tower Hill iii. v A sad fatality had attended her family.
1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets vii. 190 The fatality attending an accursed house.
3. The quality of causing death or disaster; fatalness; a fatal influence.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > [noun]
grievousness1303
noyfulnessa1398
fatality1490
harmfulnessa1586
balefulness1590
illnessc1595
offensiveness1618
disserviceableness1635
injuriousness1649
fatalness1652
noxiousness1655
prejudicialness1655
deleteriousness1758
vice1837
disutility1879
nocuousness1894
disvalue1925
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [noun] > quality > extreme
balea1000
malicea1382
deadlinessc1450
fatality1490
maliciousness1555
virulency1651
fatalness1652
contagium1654
virulentness1727
outrage1735
virulence1748
1490 Arte & Crafte to knowe well to Dye (Caxton) 21 Sathanas wyth all his cruelle fatallytees.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. xii. 208 7. times 9. or the yeare of sixty three..is conceived to carry with it, the most considerable fatality . View more context for this quotation
1707 G. Farquhar Beaux Stratagem ii. 15 Love and Death have their Fatalities.
1793 E. Darwin in T. Beddoes Let. to E. Darwin 62 Young men and women..if they knew the general fatality of their disease..would despond.
1848 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 3) 185 Thy beauty hath fatality.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xx. 245 The insidious fatality of hot countries.
4.
a. A disastrous event; a calamity, misfortune.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [noun] > misfortune or ill-luck > instance of misfortune or ill-luck > dreadful or severe
tragedy1509
calamity1552
disaster1567
fatality1648
stroke1686
catastrophe1748
tragic1847
big one1978
meltdown1979
1648 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 19 This was the tragedy of Tuesday..Since this fatality, some talk of an inclination in Surrey to associate.
1678 A. Marvell Acct. Growth Popery in Wks. I. 463 Their interviews are usually solemnized with some fatality and disaster.
1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 254 (note) Fatalities to which the human race is liable.
1868 E. Edwards Life Sir W. Ralegh I. v. 83 A long series of fatalities ended in the wreck of two ships.
b. A disaster resulting in death; a fatal accident or occurrence. attributive, as fatality figure, fatality rate.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > cause of death > [noun] > fatal accident
fatality1840
the world > life > death > [noun] > death-rate
mortality1621
death rate1849
death toll1864
fatality rate1897
1840 R. H. Barham Look at Clock in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 56 The shocking fatality Ran over, like wild-fire, the whole Principality.
1861 Times 7 Oct. The only fatalities were the five above mentioned, while a large number were more or less injured.
1897 Daily News 8 Jan. 6/2 What is called the fatality rate, that is to say, the proportion of deaths to cases, varies considerably in the case of diphtheria.
1912 Maclean's Feb. 433 The ‘fatality’ figures in Toronto..are as follows.
1966 Lancet 24 Dec. 1372/2 The daily fatality-rate..shows a peak on the second day in all the groups.
1971 Brit. Med. Bull. 27 27/1 The most likely explanation seemed to be a change in the fatality-rate.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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