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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
vagaries
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And the vagaries of a jury were possibly another consideration: the government fearing the libertarian qualities of juries.
▪ Despite the snow, the window was open, the central-heating system coping easily with the vagaries of the climate.
▪ Farmers change their minds about access to a river at the last minute, according to the vagaries of the harvest.
▪ Rice cultivation, which is dependent on the vagaries of weather and on complex systems of irrigation, requires cooperative labor.
▪ This is an assumption or misunderstanding that can only have arisen from the curious vagaries of the student grants system in Britain.
▪ This would help the firm to respond swiftly to the vagaries of the energy business.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vagaries

Vagary \Va*ga"ry\, n.; pl. Vagaries. [L. vagari to stroll about. See Vague.]

  1. A wandering or strolling. [Obs.]

  2. Hence, a wandering of the thoughts; a wild or fanciful freak; a whim; a whimsical purpose. ``The vagaries of a child.''
    --Spectator.

    They changed their minds, Flew off, and into strange vagaries fell.
    --Milton.

Wiktionary
vagaries

n. (plural of vagary English)

Usage examples of "vagaries".

During the war, the sorceresses practiced only the Vagaries, the wizards only the Vigors.

That is, the harmonious joining of the Vigors and the Vagaries, and their control and proper use thereafter.

When this occurs and her training in both the Vigors and the Vagaries is complete, I shall gladly give over to her my position as First Mistress.

Her sexual needs had been replaced by a calmness, an inner peace, that she now knew only a true adept of the Vagaries could attain.

It is said that complete mastery of the Vagaries always results in madness.

And although the Vagaries are no longer being practiced, they still exist, nonetheless.

The death enchantments were fashioned in such a way that if any wizard who has accepted them breaks any part of his vows or practices any form of the Vagaries, either known or unknown to the others, he immediately dies.

And we certainly did not need a group of wizards addicted, as it were, to the use of the Vagaries, even if that meant victory.

One day, while struggling to understand one of the more arcane passages of the Vagaries, she and the others had all felt the unexpected stirring of their loins.

That the quality of their blood and, therefore, their ability to employ the Vagaries became stronger each time they indulged themselves in yet greater forms of sexual wickedness.

And those of the Pentangle, the ones who practice the Vagaries, shall require the female of the Chosen Ones, and shall bend her to their purpose.

Therefore, since she was banished and she herself has never returned to Eutracia, she must have somehow learned the Vagaries while she was still here.

Only the wizards had access to the Vagaries, and only one wizard was unaccounted for, and may have had a strong motive to help them.

Failee had considered commencing the last of the Chimeran Agonies immediately but changed her mind, remembering that the Vagaries promised a more effective resolution if the spell was cast at night.

Shailiha and the Paragon were taken there because of a great plan the Coven has in store, one that Failee garnered from my recitation of the Vagaries to her.