fate
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From Latin fata (neutral plural of fatum).
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fate (countable and uncountable; plural fates)
- The cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
- The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
- Destiny (perhaps connotes death, ruin, misfortune, etc.).
- Accept your fate
- The three goddesses (The Fates) of classic European mythology who are said to control the fate of human beings.
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that which predetermines events
inevitable events
destiny
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confidence
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to fate (third-person singular simple present fates, present participle fating, simple past and past participle fated)
- (transitive, rare) To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.
- The oracle's prediction fated Oedipus to kill his father, not all his striving could change what would occur.
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- In some uses this may imply it causes the inevitable event.
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fate
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fate f.
- Plural form of fata.
