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Antonyms for vacillates

Grammar : Verb
Spell : vas-uh-leyt
Phonetic Transcription : ˈvæs əˌleɪt


Definition of vacillates

Origin :
  • 1590s, "to sway unsteadily," from Latin vacillatum, from vacillare (see vacillation). Meaning "to waver between two opinions or courses" is recorded from 1620s. Related: Vacillated; vacillates; vacillating.
  • verb go back and forth
Example sentences :
  • Panic-stricken, he vacillates, supplicating Our Lady to save him.
  • Extract from : « L-bas » by J. K. Huysmans
  • Whoever cannot be bribed by ten dollars, but vacillates, will be bribed by twenty-five or fifty.
  • Extract from : « Criminal Psychology » by Hans Gross
  • If he projects, he vacillates between an extravagant and morbid deification, and a spiteful contempt of his physician.
  • Extract from : « Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology » by C. G. Jung
  • Is it to be wondered at, if many a modern mother, in this predicament, vacillates between the two?
  • Extract from : « Heart and Soul » by Victor Mapes (AKA Maveric Post)
  • Thus, in such a moment conditions become unsatisfactory, the soldier very quickly feels that the hand that holds him vacillates.
  • Extract from : « Battle Studies » by Charles-Jean-Jacques-Joseph Ardant du Picq
  • Beyond a doubt, Mr. Buchanan is faithful to the slaveholding class, as Mr. Fillmore vacillates between it and its opponents.
  • Extract from : « Presidential Candidates: » by D. W. Bartlett
  • Between these ifs he vacillates, swung like a ship on stormy waters, touching heaven and hell.
  • Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly , Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 » by Various
  • Thought dies out before him, the will is unseated and vacillates, we are cowed like Antony beside Cæsar.
  • Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly , Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 » by Various
  • He vacillates abominably and forever between two irreconcilable desires.
  • Extract from : « A Book of Prefaces » by H. L. Mencken
  • He vacillates unceasingly and takes turn by turn the most opposing viewpoints.
  • Extract from : « Poise: How to Attain It » by D. Starke

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