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vicissitude |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Vicissitude \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: vicissitude n 1: 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" 2: mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another)
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