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FATED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(usually followed by 'to') determined by tragic fate
Example:
fated to be the scene of Kennedy's assassination
Synonyms:
doomed; fated
Classified under:
Similar:
certain; sure (certain to occur; destined or inevitable)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb fate
Context examples:
If poor Sir Thomas were fated never to return, it would be peculiarly consoling to see their dear Maria well married, she very often thought; always when they were in the company of men of fortune, and particularly on the introduction of a young man who had recently succeeded to one of the largest estates and finest places in the country.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Here was the point, and this the means by which Maple White and his ill-fated comrade had made their ascent.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Its long, damp passages, its narrow cells and ruined chapel, were to be within her daily reach, and she could not entirely subdue the hope of some traditional legends, some awful memorials of an injured and ill-fated nun.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Once only, when she had been grieving over the last ill-judged, ill-fated walk to the Cobb, bitterly lamenting that it ever had been thought of, he burst forth, as if wholly overcome—"Don't talk of it, don't talk of it," he cried.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Nigh two months had Alleyne Edricson been in Castle Twynham—months which were fated to turn the whole current of his life, to divert it from that dark and lonely bourne towards which it tended, and to guide it into freer and more sunlit channels.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
His idea was still with me, because it was not a vapour sunshine could disperse, nor a sand-traced effigy storms could wash away; it was a name graven on a tablet, fated to last as long as the marble it inscribed.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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