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Definition of Common fate
1. Noun. A Gestalt principle of organization holding that aspects of perceptual field that move or function in a similar manner will be perceived as a unit.
Generic synonyms: Gestalt Law Of Organization, Gestalt Principle Of Organization
Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Fate
Literary usage of Common fate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions by Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers (1853)
"Then die ! that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee. That arc
so wondrous sweet and fair 1 How email a part of time they share Old Age ..."
2. The Achievements of Stanley and Other African Explorers: Comprising All the by Joel Tyler Headley (1878)
"STANLEY was now like Cortez when he burned his ships behind him—there was no
returning—one and all must move on together to a common fate. ..."
3. Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home by Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1841)
"... has met with the common fate, and has little honour in her own country—or her
own chapel. There were some twenty children kneeling about the door, ..."
4. John De Witt, Grand Pensionary of Holland: Or, Twenty Years of a by Germain Antonin Lefèvre-Pontalis (1885)
"... and honours conferred upon him—His character—His relations with John de Witt—His
wife, Maria van Berkel—His children—common fate of the two brothers. ..."
5. The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical by John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees, Thomas Hood, John Harris (1810)
"Public buildings, churches, and dwelling houses were alike involved in one common
fate; and, making a proper allowance leaps and mount*, and makes more ..."
6. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1851)
"common fate of parties may, in their case, be turned aside.- But whether it be
or not—with them, at any rate, is the honour, with them are the hopes of the ..."
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