| Pronunciation: | | vi'sisi`tood
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- [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"
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VICISSITUDE is a 11 letter word that starts with V. |
| | See Also: | | fluctuation, mutability, mutableness, variation |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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