FATALITY

fatality. Fatality, n. a decree of fate, a tendency to danger

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Fa‐tal″i‐ty (?), n.;pl. Fatalities (#). [[L. fatalitas: cf. F. fatalité]] 1. 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. 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. 3. That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event. Dryden.