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Synonyms for vicissitude

Grammar : Noun
Spell : vi-sis-i-tood, -tyood
Phonetic Transcription : vɪˈsɪs ɪˌtud, -ˌtyud

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Définition of vicissitude

Origin :
  • 1560s, from Middle French vicissitude (14c.), from Latin vicissitudinem (nominative vicissitudo) "change," from vicissim "changeably, in turn," from vicis "a turn, change" (see vicarious). Related: Vicissitudes.
  • noun change
Example sentences :
  • But, on the whole, death and vicissitude had done very little.
  • Extract from : « Fragments from The Journal of a Solitary Man » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Every grief hath that opportunity of cure; every joy that peril of vicissitude.
  • Extract from : « St. Cuthbert's » by Robert E. Knowles
  • The Sun shone on it: the vicissitude of seasons and human fortunes.
  • Extract from : « Past and Present » by Thomas Carlyle
  • What dark treasure-houses of vicissitude and woe are our memories become!
  • Extract from : « Zanoni » by Edward Bulwer Lytton
  • London had hitherto been true to him through every vicissitude.
  • Extract from : « Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) » by Thomas Babington Macaulay
  • When a child, I was abandoned to every vicissitude—and I am lost.
  • Extract from : « A Plea for the Criminal » by James Leslie Allan Kayll
  • But beside this Annual Vicissitude of the quinoxes, not to say, of the 4.
  • Extract from : « Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 » by Various
  • So great a vicissitude in his life could not at once be received as real.
  • Extract from : « The Scarlet Letter » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • There was a formula of prayer adapted to every vicissitude of life.
  • Extract from : « The Trial of Jesus from a Lawyer's Standpoint, Vol. II (of II) » by Walter M. Chandler
  • His behaviour at supper was a vicissitude of startings and reveries.
  • Extract from : « The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, Volume I » by Tobias Smollett

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