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Word: dira (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much of its career, the world has functioned on the principle of predestined and even tragic inevitability. Most of the planet's religions are steeped in a fatalism that teaches acceptance of dira necessitas, the fearful inevitability of things. The Greeks' Moira, the Romans' fatum, the Muslims' kismet-all enforce the will of an otherworldly plan, against which it is useless to exert a defiant or creative will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: On Challenging the Inevitable | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

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