vicissitudinous

• “I would posit that vocabulary, and not grammar, is what is alive and vicissitudinous.”

  Grammar is as alive and vicissitudinous as the people who use it, unlike math. - 22 Words

• “In this case, I knew “vicissitude,” but I had to check on “vicissitudinous.””

  Grammar is as alive and vicissitudinous as the people who use it, unlike math. - 22 Words

• “Grammar is as alive and vicissitudinous as the people who use it, unlike math.”

  The Gospel in 6 essential steps: plan, event, accomplishment, offer, application, and result - 22 Words

• “Had he witnessed or heard about some Indian barbarity that, combined with his depression, produced a statement he might have repudiated at other times in his vicissitudinous career?”

  Simon & Schuster: Hard Road

• “He lived and taught in various places, making friends or enemies wherever he went, but was apparently not very successful financially, as he was banished from Cologne for debt, and spent his last days in poverty, a typical example of the irregular, vicissitudinous life led by his kind at that time.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize

• “Marriage, the earthly way, is vicissitudinous, for everybody knows that anything is liable to happen to a man at large.”

  Humorous Ghost Stories

• “With such prejudice the negro has been contending and struggling to rise, under adverse circumstances through the vicissitudinous cycles of an hundred years.”

  History of the First African Baptist Church, From its Organization, January 20th, 1788, to July 1st, 1888. Including the Centennial Celebration, Addresses, Sermons, Etc.

• “Their love is one, their joy is the same, and through the vicissitudinous cycles of time they are to live as one, for better or for worse.”

  History of the First African Baptist Church, From its Organization, January 20th, 1788, to July 1st, 1888. Including the Centennial Celebration, Addresses, Sermons, Etc.

• “A little while ago I met an Englishman in a railway carriage, who suggests himself as a kind of contrast to this warlike and vicissitudinous backwoodsman.”

  Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2.

• “At the end of the long vicissitudinous struggle the Church lost its jurisdiction in res spiritualibus annexal, notwithstanding the claims of the Council of Trent (Sess.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent

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