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vacillate
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To sway unsteadily from one side to the other; oscillate. 2 (context intransitive English) To swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action; "He oscillates between accepting the new position and retirement" [syn: hover , vibrate , oscillate ] move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern; "the ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The longer you vacillate the less time you'll have to do anything worthwhile. ▪ The writer seems to vacillate between approving of Collins' actions and finding them disgusting. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ How often we vacillate ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "to sway unsteadily," from Latin vacillatus , past participle of vacillare "sway to and fro; hesitate" (see vacillation ). Meaning "to waver between two opinions or courses" is recorded from 1620s. Related: Vacillated ; vacillates ; vacillating .
Usage examples of vacillate.
Bismarck and Cavour seized the opportunity of making extremely useful for Germany and Italy the irrelevant and vacillating idealism and the timid absolutism of the third Napoleon.
More frightening, Sysquemalyn vacillated between sane and insane, shrieking one minute, cooing the next as if playing her own games.
It was waves of light, creamily golden light tinged with a border of green, and within its vacillating luminescence was a message.
Weak and vacillating as he was in most things, it seemed that the earl could be strong in his dislike of his son, and firm in his determination not to condone the infamy of his behavior toward Hortensia Winthrop.
CHAPTER 6 STEAL OF EMPIRE Swith vacillated in his support betz,een the Consei-vative anti Libem1pai-ties, equally disloyal to both and trusted by neither.
CHAPTER 6 STEAL OF EMPIRE Swith vacillated in his support betz,een the Consei-vative anti Libem1pai-ties, equally disloyal to both and trusted by neither.
One by one, as if bewitched, the hara in our side of the room began to walk slowly forward, toward the vacillating forms of the huyana.
She vacillated between imagining herself as a part of their team, at least while on Neverland, and wanting to forget all about everything and hop aboard the first ship headed elsewhere.
Kelian to rest on his, but I had vacillated for some time between trying to write a novel with a Svanetian setting, which might not be very popular in English-speaking countries, or indulging my longtime fascination with the American Indian to write something about my adopted country.
The home Government, however, had acted in a vacillating way, and it was only the conquest of Natal by the Boers which caused them to claim it as a British colony.
Robbie since the news broke, and he strolled through the overdecorated corridors of his own office to a remarkable silence, deepened both by his bedraggled appearance and by the presence of Evon, who seemed to vacillate between friend and foe on an hourly basis.
When the Regent, who had been a friend of her late husband, removed into the palace of the Pharaohs, he made her advances, and the clever and decided woman knew how to make herself at first agreeable, and finally indispensable, to the vacillating man.
Julie contained the breath when seeing that Zack vacillated, but breathed alleviated when seeing to leave it to the porch.
The wazir was a vacillating bootlick named al-Mazdaghani, who sided with the Batini - the Fida'in by another name.
He vacillated between extreme cordiality when deferring to Zainal's knowledge of some matters and total dismissal of Zainal's opinions.