vacillation

What we call vacillation is to have no fixed opinion, to be influenced at once by the opinions of others.

The Foundations of Personality 1921

That's what I call vacillation, and you ought to be ashamed of it. "

The Simpkins Plot George A. Birmingham 1907

This disposition of the mind, which arises from two contrary emotions, is called vacillation; it stands to the emotions in the same relation as doubt does to the imagination (II.xliv. note); vacillation and doubt do not differ one from the other, except as greater differs from less.

The Ethics 2007

This kind of vacillation and avoidance only feeds those fears.

03/15/2007 2007

The word “if” in the original passage is only a polite expression and does not denote any kind of vacillation or option.

Archive 2007-05-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2007

The word “if” in the original passage is only a polite expression and does not denote any kind of vacillation or option.

Let a million mythos bloom! Tusar N Mohapatra 2007

Early in the day his supporters had thought little of this, attributing the fall to that vacillation which is customary in such matters; but towards the latter part of the afternoon the tidings from the

The Way We Live Now 2004

He made a charge, bending his head first towards John Eames, and then, with that weak vacillation which is as disgraceful in a bull as in a general, he changed his purpose, and turned his horns upon his other enemy.

The Small House at Allington 2004

Their hesitancy was due to an innate, congenital lack of determination -- that same hideous curse of vacillation which is responsible for so much misery in human life.

The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac 1896

Their hesitancy was due to an innate, congenital lack of determination -- that same hideous curse of vacillation which is responsible for so much misery in human life.

The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac Eugene Field 1872