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Definition of Destiny

1. Noun. An event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future.

2. Noun. The ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman). "We are helpless in the face of destiny"

3. Noun. Your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you). "Success that was her portion"

Definition of Destiny

1. n. That to which any person or thing is destined; predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom.

Definition of Destiny

1. Proper noun. (English female given name). ¹

2. Noun. That to which any person or thing is destined; a predetermined state; a condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom. ¹

3. Noun. The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; fate; an irresistible power or agency conceived of as determining the future, whether in general or of an individual. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Destiny

1. the fate or fortune to which one is destined [n -NIES]

Medical Definition of Destiny

1. Origin: OE. Destinee, destene, F. Destinee, 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, the three Parcae, or Fates; the supposed powers which preside over human life, and determine its circumstances and duration. "Marked by the Destinies to be avoided." (Shak) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Destiny

destimulation destinable destinal destinate destinating destination destinationless destinations destine destined

destines destinies destining destinist destinists destiny (current term) destinyless destituent destitute destitute of(p)

destituted destitutely destituteness destitutenesses destitutes destituting destitution destitutions destock destocking

Literary usage of Destiny

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1895)
"All our conclusions concerning human destiny, aside from the Scriptures, are drawn from the acknowledged attributes of God—His wisdom, power, and goodness— ..."

2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1903)
"... for no one can put it down until the mystery is solved. From " Children of destiny." CHILDREN OF destiny By MOLLY ELLIOTT SEA WELL Author of ..."

3. Mark Twain: The Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens by Albert Bigelow Paine (1912)
"If through the years still ahead of us the course of destiny seems less clearly defined, it is only because thronging events make the threads less easy to ..."

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