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karma (kär′mə, kʉr′-)

noun

  1. Buddhism, Hinduism the totality of a person's actions in any one of the successive states of that person's existence, thought of as determining the fate of the next stage
  2. loosely fate; destiny

Etymology: Sans, a deed, act, fate < IE base *kwer-, to make, form > Welsh pryd, shape, time

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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