资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Fatality \Fa*tal"i*ty\, n.;pl. {Fatalities}. [L. fatalitas: cf.
   F. fatalit['e]]
   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. 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. That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal
      event. --Dryden.