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vacillating
Part of Speech: Noun
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- When the Regent, who had been a friend of her late husband, removed into the palace of the Pharaohs, he made her advances, and the clever and decided woman knew how to make herself at first agreeable, and finally indispensable, to the vacillating man. - "The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers", Georg Ebers.
- In his philosophical writings, he is always simple; but, as he is loose and vacillating in his use of terms, this simplicity is often purchased at the expense of exactness and self- consistency. - "A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 (of 2)", John Miller Dow Meiklejohn.
- The love of a very young girl may in itself be both strong and enduring, but it generally has the effect of making her prone to extremes of hope and fear, uncertain of herself, vacillating in her ideas, and unsteady in the pursuit of the smaller ends of life. - "Sant' Ilario", F. Marion Crawford.