Definition of Destinies

1. Noun. (plural of destiny) ¹

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Definition of Destinies

1. destiny [n] - See also: destiny

Lexicographical Neighbors of Destinies

destimulate
destimulated
destimulates
destimulating
destimulation
destinable
destinal
destinate
destinating
destination
destinationless
destinations
destine
destined
destines
destinies (current term)
destining
destinist
destinists
destiny
destinyless
destituent
destitute
destitute of(p)
destituted
destitutely
destituteness
destitutenesses
destitutes
destituting

Literary usage of Destinies

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

1. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"... flag " having never been conquered," and of its " fixing for ever the destinies of France !!!" Admiral Linois, the governor of Guadaloupe, ..."

2. Lectures on the Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, John Sibree (1902)
"... resulting from the antithesis occasioned by that infinite falsehood which rules the destinies of the Middle Ages and constitutes their life and spirit. ..."

3. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape by Frederick Douglass (2001)
"... divided — Sad prospects and grief — Parting — Slaves have no voice in deciding their own destinies — General dread of falling into Master Andrew's hands ..."

4. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1841)
"And if his opinion of absolute necessity of all things were true, the destinies of men could not be altered, either by examples or fear of punishment. ..."

5. The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells (1920)
"DIVIDED destinies IT was an artless Bandar, and he danced upon a pine, And much I wondered how he lived, and where the beast might dine, And many, ..."

6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... who guided its destinies and gathered around him the men who made the Church Extension a great factor in the Catholic life of America. ..."

7. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"DIVIDED destinies IT was an artless Bandar, and he danced upon a pine, And much I wondered how he lived, and where the beast might dine, And many, ..."

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