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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or quality of being fateful.

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  • noun The quality of being fateful

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Examples

  • Besides the confusion that is hidden by this debate about the "fatefulness" of the Lebanese elections, despite their extreme importance, the debate also hides other issues, whether by underestimating or overestimating their importance, such as:

    unknown title 2009

  • Besides the confusion that is hidden by this debate about the "fatefulness" of the Lebanese elections, despite their extreme importance, the debate also hides other issues, whether by underestimating or overestimating their importance, such as:

    unknown title 2009

  • A sense of fatefulness grows almost unbearable toward the end, but the film takes a final, breathtaking turn into a realm of abstract beauty that was glimpsed in the beginning, and "Senna" reminds us, one more time, what it was that drove the driver.

    'The Help': '60s Racism in Black and White Joe Morgenstern 2011

  • And at the end of the night, she goes back into the room to say goodbye to him, and you see the fatefulness of encounters.

    Tina Brown's Must-Reads: The Lives Of Others 2010

  • It evokes a sense of inevitability, a fatefulness, to the event.

    George Tiller’s clinic has closed « Dating Jesus 2009

  • Some of Auster's tics or techniques — the incestuous literary connections, the skewed autobiography, the ambiguous blurring of fact and fiction, the pervasive fatefulness — might sink any ordinary novel from sheer portentousness.

    Spellbound Dirda, Michael 2008

  • She had little carking anxieties; a curious fatefulness seemed to rule her, and she experienced a mournful want of some one to confide in.

    The Woodlanders 2006

  • Unhampered by emotion, Carl's fatefulness looked geometric.

    In Other Worlds Attanasio, A. A. 1984

  • It goes painfully to one's heart to think that the embargo, if it is ever lifted, will not be lifted in time for most of the events which we all most desire, events that clamour to be recorded in the large black type that for so many years Londoners have associated with fatefulness.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 4, 1917 Various

  • There is an expectancy in the air, a fatefulness -- a loud word would be blasphemy that offends the ear and the feeling of decency It is the hour of all still things, the silent things that pass like dreams through the night.

    Over Prairie Trails Frederick Philip Grove

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