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Vicissitude

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Noun
  1. 1
    Regular change or succession from one thing to another, or one part of a cycle to the next; alternation; mutual succession; interchange; variability.
  2. 2
    mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another) wordnet
  3. 3
    A change, especially in one's life or fortunes. in-plural, often

    "And God made.. the Stars, and set them in the firmament of Heaven to illuminate the Earth, and rule the day in their vicissitude..."

  4. 4
    a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something wordnet

Etymology

From Middle French vicissitude, from Latin vicissitūdō (“change”), from vicissim (“on the other hand, in turn”), from vicis (“change, vicissitude”), whence Spanish vez and French fois (“time (as in "next time"), occurrence”).

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