Vacillancy

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality or state of being vacillant; waveringness. archaic, uncountable, usually

    "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."

Example

More examples

"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."

Etymology

From vacillant + -cy.

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