Crossword-Solution: ATROPOS 7 letters, 19 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Also she bare the Destinies and ruthless avenging Fates, Clotho and Lachesis and Atropos 1610, who give men at their birth both evil and good to have, and they pursue the transgressions of men and of gods: and these goddesses never cease from their dread anger until they punish the sinner with a sore penalty.

Clotho and Lachesis were over them and Atropos less tall than they, a goddess of no great frame, yet superior to the others and the eldest of them.

Pagan vain-glories which thought the world might last for ever, had encouragement for ambition; and, finding no _atropos_ unto the immortality of their names, were never dampt with the necessity of oblivion.

Then, whilst we chant out thine immortal praise, Our offerings shall be onely sprigs of bays; And if our tears will needs their brinks out-fly, We'l weep them forth into an elegy, To tell the world, how deep fates wounded wit, When Atropos the lovely Lovelace hit! How th' active fire, which cloath'd thy gen'rous mind, Consum'd the water, and the earth calcin'd Untill a stronger heat by death was given, Which sublimated thy poor soul to heaven.

One end of the thread is between our fingers, but we are haunted for the most part by the snap of Atropos’ shears.