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Inevitable accident

noun

A natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events. Synonyms: act of God, force majeure, unavoidable casualty, vis major.

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"Inevitable accident" Quotes from Famous Books

... loss, or damage, or theft, to secure the protection of travellers, whose patronage was a compensation. In case of robbery, when goods were taken by superior force, he was not responsible, nor was he for loss occasioned by inevitable accident. ...

— The Old Roman World • John Lord

... assigns an ignominious sepulture to him who has deprived his nearest and best friend, namely himself, of life and his destined course, being neither compelled so to do by public judgment, by any sad and inevitable accident of fortune, nor by any insupportable disgrace, but merely pushed on by cowardice and the imbecility of a timorous soul. And the opinion that makes so little of life, is ridiculous; for it is our being, 'tis all we have. Things of a nobler and more elevated being may, indeed, reproach ...

— The Essays of Montaigne, Complete • Michel de Montaigne

Words linked to "Inevitable accident" : act of God, disaster, catastrophe, tragedy, unavoidable casualty, cataclysm, calamity