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Definitioner
Substantiv
- The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
- The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
- Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.
- (mythology) (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).
Verb
- (transitive) To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.
Exempel
- Captain Edward Carlisle[...]felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze,; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
- Accept your fate.
- The oracle's prediction fated Oedipus to kill his father; not all his striving could change what would occur.
- At the conclusion of this part, Eric, who plays Jesus and is now a soldier, captures Violet in the forest, fating her to a concentration camp.
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