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Vagary

noun

(pl. vagaries)

An unexpected and inexplicable change in something (in a situation or a person's behavior, etc.). "His wealth fluctuates with the vagaries of the stock market" , "He has dealt with human vagaries for many years"

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Etymology of 'Vagary'

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"Vagary" Quotes from Famous Books

... without vagary, now became the fire's progress. Terrible in its absolute precision, in its measured advance down the wind, this implacable river of flame rolled down the city. Far ahead of the actual fire itself ran its fatal forerunner, the sheet of gases and superheated air, ...

— White Ashes • Sidney R. Kennedy and Alden C. Noble

... ploughs, and electric telegraphs, and all the things which you see in the Great Exhibition; and to foretell famine, and bad weather, and the price of stocks and (what is hardest of all) the next vagary of the great idol Whirligig, which some call Public Opinion; till at last he grew as rich as a Jew, and as fat as a farmer, and people thought twice before they meddled with him, but only once before they asked him to help ...

— The Water-Babies - A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby • Charles Kingsley

... all things consist, fire being the true, and night the phenomenal. From such an unsubstantial and delusive basis it would not repay us, even if we had the means of accomplishing it, to give an exposition of his physical system. In many respects it degenerated into a wild vagary; as, for example, when he placed an overruling daemon in the centre of the phenomenal world. Nor need we be detained by his extravagant reproduction of the old doctrine of the generation of animals from miry clay, nor follow his explanation of the nature of man, who, since ...

— History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) - Revised Edition • John William Draper

Words linked to "Vagary" : modification, alteration, change