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Vacillate   Listen
verb
Vacillate  v. i.  (past & past part. vacillated; pres. part. vacillating)  
1.
To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to waver. "(A spheroid) is always liable to shift and vacillatefrom one axis to another."
2.
To fluctuate in mind or opinion; to be unsteady or inconstant; to waver.
Synonyms: See Fluctuate.





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"Vacillate" Quotes from Famous Books



... his own. "There is nothing which injures true Liberalism more than the sympathy of its left wing with the loose ruffianism of unsettled States." "Such a State," I said, "is Ireland; and if, under the pressure of extraordinary difficulties, Ministers vacillate or waver in their dealings with it, the truest Liberalism, I believe, is that which holds them firmly to ...
— Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography • George William Erskine Russell


Words linked to "Vacillate" :   swing, vacillant, vacillator, waffle, oscillate, hover, fluctuate, vibrate, waver, vacillation, hesitate


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