fatalist

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fa·tal·ism

(fāt′l-ĭz′əm)

1. The doctrine that all events are predetermined by fate and are therefore unalterable.

2. Acceptance of the belief that all events are predetermined and inevitable.

fa′tal·ist n.

fa′tal·is′tic adj.

fa′tal·is′ti·cal·ly adv.

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Noun	1.	fatalist - anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny determinist, predestinarian, predestinationist necessitarian - someone who does not believe the doctrine of free will
Adj.	1.	fatalist - of or relating to fatalism; "a fatalist person" fatalistic

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جَبْري، مُؤْمِن بالقَضاء والقَدَر

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fatalist

[ˈfeɪtəlɪst] N → fatalista mf

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fatalist

n → Fatalist(in) m(f)

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fatalist

[ˈfeɪtəlɪst] n → fatalista m/f

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fate

(feit) noun

1. (sometimes with capital) the supposed power that controls events. Who knows what fate has in store (= waiting for us in the future)?

2. a destiny or doom, eg death. A terrible fate awaited her.

ˈfatalism noun

the belief that fate controls everything, and man cannot change it.

ˈfatalist noun

a person who believes in fatalism. He is a complete fatalist – he just accepts everything that happens to him.

ˌfataˈlistic adjective

ˈfated adjective

controlled or intended by fate. He seemed fated to arrive late wherever he went.

ˈfateful adjective

involving important decisions, results etc. At last the fateful day arrived.

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Samuel Ferguson.--Excelsior.--Full-length Portrait of the Doctor.--A Fatalist convinced.--A Dinner at the Travellers' Club.--Several Toasts for the Occasion.

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"He is far too sensible a man," I thought, "to have become a Fatalist. And yet what else can he mean by it?" And, as I folded up the letter and put it away, I inadvertently repeated the words aloud.

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I might not have to use it, but I was fatalist enough to fancy that I should.

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Why should I not become a fatalist? Remember how, on the third day that we ascended the Shlangenberg, I was moved to whisper in your ear: 'Say but the word, and I will leap into the abyss.' Had you said it, I should have leapt.

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However, I was learning from Ajor, who was more or less of a fatalist, a philosophy which was as necessary in Caspak to peace of mind as is faith to the devout Christian of the outer world.

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As he sat there with folded arms, he was surely a fatalist. The question as to whether or not he should ever reach it, should ever find himself really bound for home, was one which seemed to trouble him slightly enough.

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If I could convince myself that I have any right to be satisfied with men as they are, and to treat them accordingly, and not according, in some respects, to my requisitions and expectations of what they and I ought to be, then, like a good Mussulman and fatalist, I should endeavor to be satisfied with things as they are, and say it is the will of God.

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But I am something of a fatalist, like all good Orientals, and I entered ready, for anything.

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Oh, shall I then, again become a fatalist, whom fourteen years of despair and ten of hope had rendered a believer in providence?

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First I am a fatalist, and believe that my time is appointed to come quite without reference to my own movements and will, and that if I am to go to Suliman's Mountains to be killed, I shall go there and shall be killed.

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"Without being a fatalist to the point of nonresistance," said he, "I have always found that the highest wisdom lies in an acquiescence with the actual." He spoke slowly, and there was a vibration of feeling in his sonorous voice.

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When, however, most unexpectedly, it came home to roost in Brett Street, Mr Verloc, who had been struggling like a man in a nightmare for the preservation of his position, accepted the blow in the spirit of a convinced fatalist. The position was gone through no one's fault really.