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noun
1.
a sudden, unpredictable change, as of one's mind or the weather.
2.
a tendency to change one's mind without apparent or adequate motive; whimsicality; capriciousness: With the caprice of a despotic king, he alternated between kindness and cruelty.
3.
Music. capriccio (def. 1).
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Caprice
is always a great word to know.
So is quarter rest. Does it mean:
| rest equal in time value to a quarter note |
| passage at the end of a composition used to bring it to a satisfactory close |
Example Sentences
- One of the film's best assets is its lack of predictability and sense of caprice and possibility.
- His depiction of the glory and caprice of the gods both balances his main characters' foibles and highlights their basic nobility.
- They recognized there were things that even hard work couldn't control — the fickle sun, the saving rain, the earth's caprice.
Collins
World English Dictionary
| caprice (kəˈpriːs) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a sudden or unpredictable change of attitude, behaviour, etc; whim |
| 2. | a tendency to such changes |
| 3. | another word for capriccio |
| [C17: from French, from Italian capriccio a shiver, caprice, from capo head + riccio hedgehog, suggesting a convulsive shudder in which the hair stood on end like a hedgehog's spines; meaning also influenced by Italian capra goat, by folk etymology] | |
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Word Origin & History
caprice
1667, from Fr. caprice "whim," from It. capriccio "whim," orig. "a shivering," probably from capro "goat," with reference to frisking; but another theory connects the It. word with capo "head" + riccio "curl, frizzled," lit. "hedgehog," from L. ericius. The notion is of the hair standing on end in horror.
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