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- noun The quality of being
fated ;destiny .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It had the right proportions of fatedness and accident, fulfillment granted and denied.
Archive 2010-02-01 Rus Bowden 2010
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Eating saves us from the fatedness of the landscape, from the dosage meters we wear on our bodies.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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First, it is arguably the Romantic moment that spawned the modern constructions of sexual subjectivity and the attendant values of individual difference, self-fulfillment, the fatedness of attraction and the primacy of desire that have legitimated modern same-sex bonds.
'Put to the Blush': Romantic Irregularities and Sapphic Tropes 2006
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Eating saves us from the fatedness of the landscape, from the dosage meters we wear on our bodies.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Eating saves us from the fatedness of the landscape, from the dosage meters we wear on our bodies.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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The fatedness was no matter of names or horoscopes, however; it was more to do with the spirit of the times, even the history of art.
Body Building Banham, Reyner 1985
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What a thing to say: "I have achieved eumoiriety," -- namely the quintessence of happy-fatedness dealt unto oneself by a perfect altruism!
Simon the Jester William John Locke 1896
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This turned out to be a stroke of luck, for the ancient Irish never embraced classical cynicism or the gloomy Greco-Roman sense of fatedness.
NYT > Opinion By THOMAS CAHILL 2010
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But the world unfolds according to its own unforeseen fatedness.
Thestar.com - Home Page Rosie DiManno 2009
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