Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FA-TAL'I-TY, n. [Fr. fatalité, from fate.]

1. A fixed unalterable course of things, independent of God or any controlling cause; an invincible necessity existing in things themselves; a doctrine of the Stoics. South.
2. Decree of fate. King Charles.
3. Tendency to danger, or to some great hazardous event. Brown.
4. Mortality. Med. Repos.