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Vacillation   /vˌæsəlˈeɪʃən/   Listen
noun
Vacillation  n.  
1.
The act of vacillating; a moving one way and the other; a wavering. "His vacillations, always exhibited most pitiably in emergencies."
2.
Unsteadiness of purpose; changeableness. "There is a vacillation, or an alternation of knowledge and doubt."





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"Vacillation" Quotes from Famous Books



... that state of vacillation between the conviction of insanity and the commencing conviction of something ...
— Lady Byron Vindicated • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... strangely, sweet Una, you echo my words! I observe, too, a vacillation in your step, a joyous inquietude in your eyes. You are confused and oppressed by the majestic novelty of the Life Eternal. Yes, it was of Death I spoke. And here how singularly sounds that word which of old was wont to bring terror to all hearts, throwing ...
— Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works • Edgar Allan Poe
... an orderly came up to the colonel, and presented a letter, which brought the lad to a standstill. He had been having a long struggle with self, and had mastered his shrinking, but he was so near the balance of vacillation still, that he felt glad of the excuse to hang back, and walked aside, feeling like one who ...
— Crown and Sceptre - A West Country Story • George Manville Fenn
... come to the present—a day of cowardice and vacillation, of strident wide-voiced wrong and faint hearted compromise; of double-faced dallying with Truth and Right. Who are to-day guiding the work of the Negro people? The "exceptions" of course. And yet so sure as this Talented Tenth is pointed out, the blind worshippers of the Average cry out in ...
— The Negro Problem • Booker T. Washington, et al.
... unregenerated way, absorbed in the ambitions and interests of a worldly life, we are perhaps content. When we live regenerated and in the spirit, we are in great joy; but when we try to live between the two and would serve God and worldly interests at the same time we are in gloomy wretchedness, vacillation, depression. ...
— The Romance of the Soul • Lilian Staveley


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