vacillant

[ vas-uh-luhnt ]
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adjective
  1. wavering; hesitant; indecisive; vacillating.

Origin of vacillant

1
1515–25; <Latin vacillant- (stem of vacillāns), present participle of vacillāre to vacillate; see -ant

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How to use vacillant in a sentence

  • The business could not hold young Weldon's vacillant temperament for long; neither could Diana.

  • And life became as easy to bear as a vacillant vision seen in dream.

    The Created Legend | Feodor Sologub