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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Destiny \Des"ti*ny\, n.; pl. {Destinies}. [OE. destinee, destene, F. destin[82]e, from destiner. See {Destine}.] 1. That to which any person or thing is destined; predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom. Thither he Will come to know his destiny. --Shak. No man of woman born, Coward or brave, can shun his destiny. --Bryant. 2. The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; fate; a resistless power or agency conceived of as determining the future, whether in general or of an individual. But who can turn the stream of destiny? --Spenser. Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. --Longfellow. {The Destinies} (Anc. Myth.), the three Parc[91], or Fates; the supposed powers which preside over human life, and determine its circumstances and duration. Marked by the Destinies to be avoided. --Shak. | |
