fatefraught

English

Alternative forms

• fate-fraught

Etymology

• fate +‎ fraught

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.