Vicissitous
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Vicissitous is an adjective meaning (dated) Of a life or career: involving changes of fortune.
Meaning
(dated) Of a life or career: involving changes of fortune.
Example Sentences
The Prudential, which had a vicissitous youth, has arrived at a fortune that has established its name in every part of the world and carried its President into the United States Senate.
1967, A. Roman and Company, Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine The weakness of Governor Foote's vicissitous career in connection with public affairs may be properly ascribed to an apparent vacillation or eccentricity, which he at times displayed […]
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include vicissitudinary, viatical, viatic, vicenarious, vigenary, vitalic.
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