"ill fate" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe a misfortune that befalls someone or something. For example: "John's ill fate led to an untimely demise."
Their offspring also suffered ill fate.
On such nerve-shredding days, these things give off the dreaded scent of ill fate.
The anguish of guilt, its sheer pain, is a way of sharing some of the ill fate.
Two lines, perhaps, had particular significance: "Long torn by ill fate, Bring upon it a time of relief".
Sarah did not take long to feel the hostility of many in Shanxi, who saw the foreign missionaries as bringers of ill fate.
China's fengshui masters and carpenters shaped a practice distinctively different from that of architects in the West, characterized by their ability to grace a building with auspicious good fortune or to curse it with ill fate.
Still, the Knicks know they are tempting ill fates for later in the season.
Not even changing the team's name from the California Angels to the Anaheim Angels has provided enough camouflage to hide this team from ill fates.
I literally grabbed each of them and pulled them back from their ill fates.
See also South, Frank Hurley's 1920 documentary of Ernest Shackleton's ill-fate voyage across Antarctica.
Asked to elucidate, he said: "For example, we have administered corporal punishment and the person has received ill-fate".
