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Meaning:

Noun:

  • Destiny (perhaps connotes death, ruin, misfortune, etc.).
  • The cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
  • The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
  • The three goddesses (The Fates) of classic European mythology who are said to control the fate of human beings.

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Proper noun:

  • Any one of the Fates.
  • A personification of fate (the cause that predetermines events).

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Verb:

  • rare To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.

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