Parcae

American  

[pahr-see, -kahy] / ˈpɑr si, -kaɪ /

plural noun

• Parca
  singular

1. the three Fates of ancient Rome, developed out of the goddess Parca by identification with the Moerae of Greek mythology.

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Parcae British  

/ ˈpɑːsiː /

plural noun

1. Greek counterparts: the Moirai. the Roman goddesses of fate

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Example Sentences

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Parcae Parca

Pluto was perplexed; his confidence in the Parcae was shaken.

From The Infernal Marriage by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

The Parcae and the Erinnyes figured as dark angels of Destiny.

From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco

Or prayers the stony Parcae soothe, Or coax the thunder from its mark?

From Poems Household Edition by Ralph Waldo Emerson

But in no part of Italy does there seem to be any distinct recollection of the Parcae.

From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco

The Parcae Sisters three have willed it so.

From Herb of Grace by Rosa Nouchette Carey

Innumerable things the little lupa learned at the side of the old woman, bony and ugly as a Parca!

From Sónnica by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

Perhaps its citizens are to be envied rather than pitied:     "bene est cui deus obtulit Parca, quod satis est, manu."

From A Cotswold Village by J. Arthur Gibbs

What fortunate, or what disastrous bird Omen'd my fate? which Parca winds my yarn, That I alone find Pity deaf as asp, And wretched live who happy hoped to be?

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Thomas Campbell

It shall be my resolve, lastingly, I hope, to endure until it pleases the implacable Parca: to break the thread.

From Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words by Henry Edward Krehbiel

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