fates

The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.

The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.

An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time.

Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.

“Accept your fate.”

Alternative letter-case form of Fate (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).

To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.

“The oracle's prediction fated Oedipus to kill his father; not all his striving could change what would occur.”