fatefraught

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Adjective

fatefraught (comparative more fatefraught, superlative most fatefraught)

  1. (archaic, rare) fateful
    • 1901 [1839], Philip James Bailey, Festus: A Poem, London: George Routledge & Sons, page 9:
      […] good's faithful war fatefraught 'gainst ill […]
    • 1911 [1814], Henry Wilson (notes, appendices, and index), “Appendix: Brief Account of Prose Fiction in Germany”, in John Colin Dunlop, History of Prose Fiction, volume II, London: G. Bell and Sons, page 589:
      […] one of the most stirring and fatefraught periods of German history.
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