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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

... Spain, so now fell this other cession, like an unexpected tornado, threatening the wreck of her children's slave-schooners and the prostration alike of their slave-made crops and their Spanish liberties; and just in the fateful moment where Numa would have stood by her, Honore had let go. ...

— The Grandissimes • George Washington Cable

... A fateful silence ensued. The wind slightly moved the curtain outward, as if in a playful attempt to follow him, and then subsided. A moment later, apparently re-enforced by other winds, or sympathizing with Richelieu, it lightly lifted the unlucky missive and cast it softly from the window. ...

— A Phyllis of the Sierras • Bret Harte

... Courtenay, who had run up from the saloon to procure those fateful letters which had so nearly parted Elsie and himself. He had laughingly refused to tell her their history. That would spoil their effect, he said. She must take them to her state-room and read them at her leisure. Then she would see their true inwardness, and his ...

— The Captain of the Kansas • Louis Tracy

... once to be that oak. Not an hour after she had first seen the fateful notice of "When the Honeymoon Wanes," Bertram's ring sounded at ...

— Miss Billy Married • Eleanor H. Porter

... spite of his initial success in speculation. When he gave up an association that probably would have led to his becoming a stock-broker, and somewhat later, when he declined an offer to be the business manager for a popular American actress, Edward Bok was called upon to make fateful decisions. In this story he lays ample stress upon the need for careful and deliberate consideration ...

— A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After • Edward Bok

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