Vicissitude
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /vɪˈsɪs.ɪˌt(j)uːd/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Vicissitude is a noun meaning (often in the plural) A change, especially in one's life or fortunes.
Meaning
(often in the plural) A change, especially in one's life or fortunes.
More Meanings
- Regular change or succession from one thing to another, or one part of a cycle to the next; alternation; mutual succession; interchange; variability.
Example Sentences
And God made.. the Stars, and set them in the firmament of Heaven to illuminate the Earth, and rule the day in their vicissitude.
Engaged intellectuals were obliged to take a stand on the side of progress and History, whatever the occasional moral vicissitudes.
The vicissitudes of war in Iraq cast a dreary backdrop for Donald Rumsfeld's first visit to Asian military allies since he became US Defense Secretary in 2001.
Among the vicissitudes incident to life, no event could have filled me with greater anxieties than that of which the notification was transmitted by your order, and received on the fourteenth day of the present month.
Word Forms
- vicissitudes
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include adventures, changes, contingencies, difficulties, events, fluctuations.
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