Word of the Day:
vicissitude
What It Means
Regular change or succession from one thing to another, or one part of a cycle to the next; alternation; mutual succession; interchange; variability.
A change, especially in one's life or fortunes.
Vicissitude in Context
“Among the vicissitudes incident to life, no event could have filled me with greater anxieties than that of which the notification was transmitted by your order, and received on the fourteenth day of the present month.”
Did You Know?
From Middle French vicissitude, from Latin vicissitūdō (“change”), from vicissim (“on the other hand, in turn”), from vicis (“change, vicissitude”), whence Portuguese vez and French fois (“time (as in "next time"), occurrence”).
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