vicissitude
pronunciation
How to pronounce vicissitude in British English:
UK [vɪˈsɪsɪtjuːd]
How to pronounce vicissitude in American English:
US [vɪˈsɪsɪtuːd]
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- Noun:
- a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something
- mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another)
Word Origin
- vicissitude
- vicissitude: see vicar
- vicissitude (n.)
- "a passing from one state to another," whether regular or not, 1560s, from Middle French vicissitude (14c.), from Latin vicissitudinem (nominative vicissitudo) "change, interchange, alternation," from vicissim (adv.) "changeably, on the other hand, by turns, in turn," from vicis "a turn, change" (see vicarious). Related: Vicissitudes.
Example
- 1. It is indeed a strange vicissitude of our science .
- 2. The taina yancheng old village falls the historical vicissitude .
- 3. But in this intense vicissitude of the market .
- 4. The community public product receives the community management structure vicissitude the influence .
- 5. What vicissitude and symbolic meaning do such beautiful and unique trappings bear ?