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noun
1.
an act or instance of vacillating.
2.
a state of indecision or irresolution.
3.
unsteady movement; fluctuation.
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Vacillation
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Example Sentences
- Even some plaintiffs who have vowed to reject the settlement have moments of vacillation.
- These things give his policy the appearance, and often the reality of vacillation.
- But let us plunge deeper into the vocabulary of vacillation.
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vacillation
c.1400, from L. vacillationem (nom. vacillatio) "a reeling, wavering," from pp. stem of vacillare "sway to and fro." Originally in reference to opinion or conduct; literal sense is recorded from 1630s.
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