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  • noun Plural form of vicissitude.

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Examples

  • Mrs. Bell comments that the term vicissitudes does not occur in the text (and, I daresay, courtship and marriage do not occur as chapter headings, either).

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 4 1993

  • I would build big positions in companies I loved and own them over time regardless of the short-term vicissitudes.

    Jim Cramer's Real Money James J. Cramer 2005

  • I would build big positions in companies I loved and own them over time regardless of the short-term vicissitudes.

    Jim Cramer's Real Money James J. Cramer 2005

  • In the centre is a family and its vicissitudes from the end of the

    Nobel Prize in Literature 1988 - Press Release 1988

  • The feature that stands out in this long life of suffering, of martyrdom in her early years and always of convulsion [Page 296] and vicissitudes, is perfect truth, perfect simplicity, and, it may be said, entire and unalterable consistency.

    The Ruin of a Princess Cl 1912

  • England passed through certain vicissitudes, until in the sixteenth century she began a career of expansion.

    The True Inwardness of the Yellow Peril 1907

  • When he had seen those stalwart beasts in their distant pastures and watched as they moved slowly toward him, white faces shining against red coats, he felt a knife-thrust of pain as he recalled the vicissitudes he and his family had brought upon this noble breed.

    Centennial Michener, James 1974

  • In the decoration of the entablature of the colonnade, the skull of the ox repeated between the garlands recalls the vicissitudes of the pioneers in their long march across the continent.

    The Jewel City Ben Macomber

  • Be sure to include "vicissitudes" at 10: 19 last night, who made what I looks like the most blatant call for a candidate to be shot.

    Hillary Invokes RFK Assassination While Describing Why She's Staying In Race 2009

  • As you can see from the audience here (eg "vicissitudes", you can not fool them because they are well read and informed).

    Was The Media Unfair To Hillary? Here's Our Rundown. 2009

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  • It means the ups and downs of life; the fluctuations that are normal in many processes: the stock market, life, attitudes of the public

    April 19, 2009