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What does fortuity mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) The state of being fortuitous.
  2. (countable) A fortuitous event; an accident.
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It may well be that the words were the fortuitous effect of wind, but the message they convey is clear, and I think our subjects would not gamble on the fortuity.
How to characterise the element of fortuity in this context is not easy.
Thus, the Court's conclusion that Ms Abbott was disabled was based in large part on the fortuity of her own fertility.
In a later essay in 1980, I noted the major role of fortuity in civil rights gains and why those gains tended to be fleeting even when enunciated in terms of permanence.
If all these were not just a series of fortuity, the universe could be said to be consecutive vertically in a fractal structure.
And in some cases consideration only increases the fortuity of its results.

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