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vacillation
Part of Speech: noun
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- It stood in particular at a very low ebb as I waited, an hour later, at the little north postern of the Castle, and, cowering within the shelter of the arch to escape the wind, debated whether his Majesty's energy would sustain him to the point of action, or whether he might not, in one of those fits of treacherous vacillation which had again and again marred his plans, send those to keep the appointment who would give a final account of me. - "Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France", Stanley J. Weyman.
- Yet in his hopeless vacillation it seemed a relief that now neither was practicable, and that he need do nothing. - "A First Family of Tasajara", Bret Harte.
- It is a strange instance of high- placed weakness and conscientious vacillation. - "The English Constitution", Walter Bagehot.