VICISSITUDE

vicissitude

(noun) mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another)

vicissitude

(noun) 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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

vicissitude (plural vicissitudes)

Regular change or succession from one thing to another, or one part of a cycle to the next; alternation; mutual succession; interchange.

Synonym: ups and downs (informal)

(often, in the plural) A change, especially in one's life or fortunes.

• Seneca

Source: Wiktionary


Vi*cis"si*tude, n. Etym: [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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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