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/vˈæsəlˌeɪt/ Listen

verb

Vacillate v. i. (past & past part. vacillated; pres. part. vacillating)

To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to waver. "(A spheroid) is always liable to shift and vacillatefrom one axis to another."

To fluctuate in mind or opinion; to be unsteady or inconstant; to waver.

Synonyms: See Fluctuate.

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"Vacillate" Quotes from Famous Books

... rode into the park he did not vacillate. He put his horse at a sharp canter, and started round the path. But he had not ridden far when he suddenly checked his horse, and reined him up with a couple of riders. "I've been looking for you," he said frankly. Peter had not ...

— The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him • Paul Leicester Ford

... his own. "There is nothing which injures true Liberalism more than the sympathy of its left wing with the loose ruffianism of unsettled States." "Such a State," I said, "is Ireland; and if, under the pressure of extraordinary difficulties, Ministers vacillate or waver in their dealings with it, the truest Liberalism, I believe, is that which holds them firmly to ...

— Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography • George William Erskine Russell