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fateful, a.|ˈfeɪtfʊl|
[f. fate n. + -ful.]
1. Of a voice or utterance: Revealing the decrees of fate; prophetic of destiny.
1715–20Pope Iliad xix. 466 Then ceas'd for ever, by the Furies ty'd, His fate-full voice. 1794Coleridge Melancholy, A mystic tumult and a fateful rhyme. 1850Carlyle Latter-d. Pamph. i. (1872) 28 That fateful Hebrew Prophecy. 1863Longfellow Wayside Inn ii. Prel. 105 The fateful cawings of the crow. 1878B. Taylor Deukalion ii. v. 84 The fateful words, ‘Rise Brother’.
2. Fraught with destiny, bearing with it or involving momentous consequences; decisive, important. Chiefly of a period of time.
1800Coleridge Death of Wallenstein iii. viii, A fateful evening doth descend upon us. 1850W. Irving Mahomet ix. (1853) 35 The fateful banner of Khaled. 1861Romance of a Dull Life xiii. 97 Each minute seemed fateful to her. 1884Roe Nat. Ser. Story xii. in Harper's Mag. Nov. 907/1 A fateful conference..was taking place.
3. Marked by the influence of fate; controlled as if by irresistible destiny.
1876S. A. Brooke Eng. Lit. 130 The Bride of Lammermoor, as great in fateful pathos as Romeo and Juliet. 1885Pall Mall G. 17 Feb. 6/2 That fateful inability to review their position. 1891Times 14 Feb. 7/5 Peasants..begin..their..wanderings from place to place in an aimless, fateful sort of way. 1891E. Peacock N. Brendon I. 229 As fateful as a Greek tragedy.
4. Bringing fate or death; deadly; = fatal 6.
1764J. Grainger Sugar Cane iv. 174 Nor fateful only is the bursting flame. 1798Canning & Hammond Progr. Man in Anti-Jacobin No. 16 Resounds the fateful dart. 1808J. Barlow Columb. iv. 316 The soldier's fateful steel.
5. Having a remarkable fate; of eventful history.
1886G. T. Stokes Ireland & Celtic Church (1888) 108 note, This fateful book is said to be still in existence.
Hence ˈfatefully adv., in a fateful manner. ˈfatefulness, the quality of being fateful.
1863S. Hibberd in Intell. Observer III. 439 If she [the bee] is so fatefully mechanical as to build and furnish a cell without knowledge of what it is. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xvii. iii, Those fatefully questionable months. 1882Pall Mall G. 1 Dec. 3 Assigning much mock fatefulness to Sir Crimson Fluid. 1886Athenæum 20 Feb. 274 A whimsical air of fatefulness. |