Fate vs Dignity - What's the difference?
fate | dignity |
The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
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The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.
(lb) (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).
To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.
* 2011 , James Al-Shamma, Sarah Ruhl: A Critical Study of the Plays (page 119)
A quality or state worthy of esteem and respect.
* 1752 , (Henry Fielding), , I. viii
* 1981 , African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights , art. 5
* 2008 , Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology (ECNH) [Switzerland]
Decorum, formality, stateliness.
* 1934 , Aldous Huxley, "Puerto Barrios", in Beyond the Mexique Bay :
High office, rank, or station.
* 1781 , Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , F. III. 231:
* Macaulay
One holding high rank; a dignitary.
* Bible, Jude 8.
(obsolete) Fundamental principle; axiom; maxim.
* Sir Thomas Browne
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As a proper noun fate
is any one of the fates.As a noun dignity is
a quality or state worthy of esteem and respect.fate
English
(wikipedia fate)Noun
- Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate' which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that ' fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
Synonyms
* destiny * doom * fortune * kismet * lot * necessity * orlay * predestination * wyrdAntonyms
* choice * free will * freedomDerived terms
* fatal * fatalism * fatality * tempt fateSee also
* determinism * indeterminismVerb
(fat)- The oracle's prediction fated Oedipus to kill his father; not all his striving could change what would occur.
- At the conclusion of this part, Eric, who plays Jesus and is now a soldier, captures Violet in the forest, fating her to a concentration camp.
Usage notes
* In some uses this may imply it causes the inevitable event.Anagrams
* * * * ----dignity
English
(wikipedia dignity)Noun
(dignities)- He uttered this ... with great majesty, or, as he called it, dignity .
- Every individual shall have the right to the respect of the dignity inherent in a human being.
- 'The dignity' of living beings with regard to plants: Moral consideration of plants for their own sake', 3: ... the ECNH has been expected to make proposals from an ethical perspective to concretise the constitutional term ' dignity of living beings with regard to plants.
Dignity of Plants
- Official DIGNITY tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.Columbia World of Quotations 1996.
- He ... distributed the civil and military dignities among his favourites and followers.
- And the king said, What honour and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this?
- These filthy dreamers speak evil of dignities .
- Sciences concluding from dignities , and principles known by themselves.