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vicissitude
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Vicissitude
(gcide) | Vicissitude \Vi*cis"si*tude\, n. [L. vicissitudo, fr. vicis
change, turn: cf. F. vicissitude. See Vicarious.]
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1. Regular change or succession from one thing to another;
alternation; mutual succession; interchange.
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God made two great lights . . .
To illuminate the earth and rule the day
In their vicissitude, and rule the night. --Milton.
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2. Irregular change; revolution; mutation.
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3. (pl.) Changing conditions of fortune in one's life; life's
ups and downs.
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This man had, after many vicissitudes of fortune,
sunk at last into abject and hopeless poverty.
--Macaulay.
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vicissitude
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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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vicissitude
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vicissitudes
(encz) | vicissitudes,proměnlivosti n: Zdeněk Brož |
vicissitude
(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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