vicissitudinous

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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.

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  • 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.
  • "Marriage, the earthly way, is vicissitudinous, for everybody knows that anything is liable to happen to a man at large." —  Humorous Ghost Stories
 

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  1. from Latin vicissitudo (-din-), vicissitude, + -ous.
 

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