Child and Fate

Child

Child noun - A condition or occurrence traceable to a cause.

Usage example: widespread stress is the child of the frenetic pace of the modern world

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Fate and child are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Fate" instead a noun "Child".

Fate noun - A condition or occurrence traceable to a cause.

Usage example: the fate of the presidential election hinged on a few thousand votes in a single state

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Child and fate are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Child" instead a noun "Fate".

Nearby Words: fated, fateful

good	good child	good fate
future	future child	future fate
original	original child	original fate
true	true child	true fate
Other adjectives: actual, real, ill, new, cursed, mysterious.

In Hellraiser: Bloodline, Pinhead decides to give John Merchant's son such a fate by planning to torture the child for a thousand-odd years, during which the boy "will wish he had died instead".

Source: Fate Worse Than Death / Live-Action Films
In Death's Design, Fate's Plan Hermione referred to Sirius as a "man child without the ability to grow up." Sirius replied that Harry's mother once said something very similar to him and Remus commented that every female he knew had said something similar at one time or another.

Source: Man Child
A variant of this trope occurs when the child-naming "pact" is made with fate, rather than with another character.

Source: Child Naming Request

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