vacillancy

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noun

The quality or state of being vacillant; waveringness.

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Meanings

nounvacillancy (usually uncountable, plural vacillancies)

plural vacillancies

  1. archaicuncountableusuallyThe quality or state of being vacillant; waveringness.

    But for my part, I vvill […] grant that God is mutable; but deny that all Mutability implies Imperfection, though ſome does, as that Vacillancy in humane Souls, and ſuch Mutations as are found in corporeal matter.

    1668, Franciscus Euistor the Palæopolite [pseudonym; Henry More], “The First Dialogue”, in Divine Dialogues, Containing Sundry Disquisitions & Instructions Concerning the Attributes of God and His Providence in the World. […], London: […] James Flesher, →OCLC, paragraph XVIII, page 74

Origin

From Latin vacill- + -ancy.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

vaccinally
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APA

vacillancy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vacillancy

MLA

“vacillancy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vacillancy. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “vacillancy,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vacillancy.

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