What does "fatality" mean?

Fatality: 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.

Additional senses

  1. 2.That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event. Dryden.

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