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Meanings of fortuity in English

Portuguese
coincidência
Catalan
atzar
Spanish
casualidad

Anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause.

coincidência
Usage of fortuity in English
1
And in some cases consideration only increases the fortuity of its results.
The Mountebank
2
There was a certain air of forced fortuity in his manner.
Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story
3
As to Winston's unlucky hit this morning, it was mere fortuity.
At Last: A Novel
4
That it would do so indefinitely and with no strings attached was a downright outlandish fortuity.
Financial Crime and Corruption
5
Superficially it was a thing of utter fortuity.
The Boss of Little Arcady
6
By some odd fortuity, a phonograph broke into wheezy song as the wayfarers swung down the street.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908
7
Down at the hotel of Peter Bines was an intimation from Mrs. Wybert herself, bearing upon this same fortuity.
The Spenders: A Tale of the Third Generation
8
She wasn't about to admit that she'd been saved by a combination of serendipity, fortuity, and blind dumb luck.
Chocolate chip cookie murder
9
She had an opportunity to better her circumstances with Edmund's help, and she intended to take advantage of the fortuity.
The notorious scoundrel
10
A happy fortuity, allowing that a happy fortuity for one (or two) people can be a catastrophe for others.
Kalooki Nights
11
The first blow of the hammer was struck, by some inconceivable fortuity, at the moment when the Duchesse de Fontanges expired.
Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan — Volume 5
12
If by some immense fortuity there came a day when they were not sprinkled with innocent blood the poor souls s'ennuyaient.
It Is Never Too Late to Mend
13
Or, away up in the snows, warmed by the fortuity of reflected heat, its emerald eye looked bravely out to the heavens.
The Mountains
14
However, one of the company, by some immense fortuity, could read; and proud of so rare an accomplishment, took it, and read it out:
The Cloister and the Hearth
15
The first symptoms of the disease were related to tumor burden in 46%, endocrine syndrome in 23%, while the diagnosis was fortuity in 29%.
Pubmed
16
But it was an immense set of fortuities that left Oswald in the path of the presidential route through Dallas.
Reuters
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Fortuity through the time