Vocabulary Word
Word: vicissitude
Definition: change (esp. from good to bad); change of fortune; CF. the last emperor of China
Definition: change (esp. from good to bad); change of fortune; CF. the last emperor of China
Sentences Containing 'vicissitude'
How else, as the Moon waxes and wanes, as the Sun approaches and recedes, can it be that such vicissitude and alternation is seen in earthly things?
But the added power of the boat did not equal the added power of the whale, for he seemed to have treble-banked his every fin; swimming with a velocity which plainly showed, that if now, under these circumstances, pushed on, the chase would prove an indefinitely prolonged, if not a hopeless one; nor could any crew endure for so long a period, such an unintermitted, intense straining at the oar; a thing barely tolerable only in some one brief vicissitude.
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