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Vacillate   /vˈæsəlˌeɪt/   Listen
Vacillate

verb
(past & past part. vacillated; pres. part. vacillating)
1.
Be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action.  Synonyms: hover, oscillate, vibrate.
2.
Move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern.  Synonyms: fluctuate, waver.






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"Vacillate" Quotes from Famous Books



... that people would call it affectation on my part and repulse me. Don't you do that!—least of all now! Give me your hand, Evje! I beg you, in the sight and hearing of you all—. (EVJE seems to vacillate.) ...
— Three Dramas - The Editor—The Bankrupt—The King • Bjornstjerne M. Bjornson

... nevertheless, too ashamed to make use of big lies. Such an untruth will not even occur to it, and it will not even believe that others are capable of the enormous insolence of the most vile distortions. Why, even when enlightened, it will still vacillate and be in doubt about the matter and will nevertheless accept as true at least some cause or other. Consequently, even from the most impudent lie something will ...
— Readings on Fascism and National Socialism • Various

... nothing but money he is poor indeed. If a man have upright character he is rich. Property may come and go, he is independent of the markets. Nothing can buy him out, nothing can sell him out. He may have more money one year than another, but his better fortunes never vacillate. ...
— The Wedding Ring - A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those - Contemplating Matrimony • T. De Witt Talmage



Words linked to "Vacillate" :   vacillator, shillyshally, swing, vacillation, oscillate, vacillant, fluctuate, hesitate, waffle



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