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vacillancy

vacillancy noun: the quality or state of being vacillant; waveringness.

Noun

vacillancy (usually uncountable, plural vacillancies)

  1. (archaic, usually) The quality or state of being vacillant; waveringness.
    • But for my part, I vvill […] grant that God is mutable; but deny that all Mutability implies Imperfection, though ſome does, as that Vacillancy in humane Souls, and ſuch Mutations as are found in corporeal matter.1668, Franciscus Euistor the Palæopolite [pseudonym; Henry More], “The First Dialogue”, in Divine Dialogues, Containing Sundry Disquisitions & Instructions Concerning the Attributes of God and His...

Forms of vacillancy

pluralvacillancies

Origin of vacillancy

From Latin vacill- + -ancy.

Questions about vacillancy

What does vacillancy mean?
Vacillancy means the quality or state of being vacillant; waveringness.
What part of speech is vacillancy?
Vacillancy is a noun.
What is the plural of vacillancy?
The plural of vacillancy is vacillancies.

Words near vacillancy in the dictionary

  1. vachery
  2. vachette
  3. vachettes
  4. Vachon
  5. vacillancies
  6. vacillancy
  7. vacillant
  8. vacillate
  9. vacillated
  10. vacillates
  11. vacillating

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