About The Word Vicissitude
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Vicissitude
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What's The Definition Of Vicissitude?
[n] mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another)
[n] a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something; "the project was subject to the usual vicissitudes of exploratory research" Synonyms | Synonyms for Vicissitude: Related Terms | Find terms related to Vicissitude: See Also | fluctuation | mutability | mutableness | variation Vicissitude In Webster's Dictionary \Vi*cis"si*tude\, n. [L. vicissitudo, fr. vicis
change, turn: cf. F. vicissitude. See {Vicarious}.]
1. Regular change or succession from one thing to another;
alternation; mutual succession; interchange.
God made two great lights . . . To illuminate the
earth and rule the day In their vicissitude, and
rule the night. --Milton.
2. Irregular change; revolution; mutation.
This man had, after many vicissitudes of fortune,
sunk at last into abject and hopeless poverty.
--Macaulay.
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