vicissitude
noun
a change or variation occurring in the course of something.
vicissitudinous
-
a word derived from
vicissitude.
Example Sentences
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Step by step, but with a fatherly eye more on priggish Myron than on piggish Ora, Author Lewis reports their slow, vicissitudinous careers.
From Time Magazine Archive
And she smiled as she added: “Marriage, the earthly way, is vicissitudinous, for everybody knows that anything is liable to happen to a man at large.”
From Humorous Ghost Stories by Dorothy Scarborough
In the company from Sangamon county Lincoln enlisted, and now for the first time entered on the vicissitudinous and dangerous life of a soldier.
From Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life by William H. Herndon
