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/fˈeɪtfəl/ Listen

adjective

Fateful adj.

Having the power of serving or accomplishing fate. "The fateful steel."

Significant of fate; ominous. "The fateful cawings of the crow."

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Etymology of 'Fateful'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fateful" Quotes from Famous Books

... all the world," says A Sardou, "is the beating of the General." On that fateful Saturday afternoon in August, after nearly fifty years of silence through the length and breadth of France, there sounded again the ominous throbbing of the drums calling for the general mobilization of the nation. At its sound the French ...

— In the Claws of the German Eagle • Albert Rhys Williams

... as if some fateful Power at Washington had set down a careless finger on a map of the U.S.A., and said to Kenset, "Here is your country," without knowledge or interest. Sometimes he wondered if there was another forest in the land as utterly lost as ...

— Tharon of Lost Valley • Vingie E. Roe

... fateful Marie Stuart of Provence—stood in her youth and beauty before her accusers, knowing she must buy her pardon, if for pardon she could hope. There the wretched Bishop of Cahors suffered tortures incredible for plots his enemies vowed he had conceived against ...

— The Motor Maid • Alice Muriel Williamson and Charles Norris Williamson

... his sister great tears coursed down his dark cheeks and splashed on the hands which so tenderly clasped his own. Betty stood before him transformed; all signs of weariness had vanished; her eyes shone with a fateful resolve; her white and eager face was surpassingly beautiful with its light of ...

— Betty Zane • Zane Grey

... The fateful hour came at last, and quite a gathering of familiar faces was at the station to see her depart. Father Doyle, Mrs. Jim Bennet and family, Katie Duncan, Mrs. Conors, old Donald, Dr. Dodona and wife, the two Piper children and a host of others saw that she ...

— Nancy McVeigh of the Monk Road • R. Henry Mainer

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