n.;pl. Fatalities [ L. fatalitas: cf. F. fatalité ] 1. The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. [ 1913 Webster ]
The Stoics held a fatality, and a fixed, unalterable course of events. South. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility. [ 1913 Webster ]
The year sixty-three is conceived to carry with it the most considerable fatality. Ser T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]
By a strange fatality men suffer their dissenting. Eikon Basilike. [ 1913 Webster ]
3. That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]