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vicissitude

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11 lettersPronunciation /vɪˈsɪs.ɪˌt(j)uːd/Part of speech nounSorted cdeiiisstuvStarts with VEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

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

Word origin

From Middle French vicissitude, from Latin vicissitūdō (“change”), from vicissim (“on the other hand, in turn”), from vicis (“change, vicissitude”), whence Portuguese vez and French fois (“time (as in "next time"), occurrence”).

Used in a sentence

  • And God made.. the Stars, and set them in the firmament of Heaven to illuminate the Earth, and rule the day in their vicissitude...
  • 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.
  • 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.

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