Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Characterized by or subject to a succession of changes; vicissitudinary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Full of, or subject to, changes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Characterized by or filled with
vicissitudes .
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Examples
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In this case, I knew “vicissitude,” but I had to check on “vicissitudinous.”
Grammar is as alive and vicissitudinous as the people who use it, unlike math. - 22 Words 2008
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Grammar is as alive and vicissitudinous as the people who use it, unlike math.
Grammar is as alive and vicissitudinous as the people who use it, unlike math. - 22 Words 2008
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I would posit that vocabulary, and not grammar, is what is alive and vicissitudinous.
Grammar is as alive and vicissitudinous as the people who use it, unlike math. - 22 Words 2008
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Grammar is as alive and vicissitudinous as the people who use it, unlike math.
Grammar is as alive and vicissitudinous as the people who use it, unlike math. - 22 Words 2008
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Grammar is as alive and vicissitudinous as the people who use it, unlike math.
When people insist on "good grammar," why is that grammar always their dialect? - 22 Words 2008
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Grammar is as alive and vicissitudinous as the people who use it, unlike math.
What every boss should keep in mind. (And I know this because mine already does.) - 22 Words 2008
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Grammar is as alive and vicissitudinous as the people who use it, unlike math.
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Had he witnessed or heard about some Indian barbarity that, combined with his depression, produced a statement he might have repudiated at other times in his vicissitudinous career?
Hard Road Barbara D’Amato 2001
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He lived and taught in various places, making friends or enemies wherever he went, but was apparently not very successful financially, as he was banished from Cologne for debt, and spent his last days in poverty, a typical example of the irregular, vicissitudinous life led by his kind at that time.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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"Marriage, the earthly way, is vicissitudinous, for everybody knows that anything is liable to happen to a man at large."
Humorous Ghost Stories Dorothy Scarborough 1906
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