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vicissitudinous

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vi⋅cis⋅si⋅tude

  [vi-sis-i-tood, -tyood]
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–noun
1. a change or variation occurring in the course of something.
2. interchange or alternation, as of states or things.
3. vicissitudes, successive, alternating, or changing phases or conditions, as of life or fortune; ups and downs: They remained friends through the vicissitudes of 40 years.
4. regular change or succession of one state or thing to another.
5. change; mutation; mutability.
Origin:
1560–70; < L vicissitūdō, equiv. to viciss(im) in turn (perh. by syncope < *vice-cessim; vice in the place of (see vice 3 ) + cessim giving way, adv. deriv. of cēdere to go, proceed) + -i- -i- -tūdō -tude

Related forms:
vi⋅cis⋅si⋅tu⋅di⋅nous, adjective
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vi·cis·si·tu·di·nar·y   (vĭ-sĭs'ĭ-tōōd'n-ěr'ē, -tyōōd'-)   
adj.  Characterized by, full of, or subject to vicissitudes.
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Word Origin & History

vicissitude 
1570, from M.Fr. vicissitude (14c.), from L. vicissitudinem (nom. vicissitudo) "change," from vicissim "changeably, in turn," from vicis "a turn, change" (see vicarious).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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