And God made.. the Stars, and set them in the firmament of Heaven to illuminate the Earth, and rule the day in their vicissitude...
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Vicissitude
Synonyms for "vicissitude" (85 found)
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48 translations across 21 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- تبدل noun (regular change or succession from one thing to another)
- تقلب الأحوال noun (a change, especially in one's life or fortunes)
Bulgarian
3 entries- превра́тност noun (a change, especially in one's life or fortunes)
- редуване noun (regular change or succession from one thing to another)
- смяна noun (regular change or succession from one thing to another)
Catalan
2 entries- vicissitud noun (regular change or succession from one thing to another)
- vicissitud noun (a change, especially in one's life or fortunes)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 沧桑 noun (a change, especially in one's life or fortunes)
Dutch
2 entries- onbestendigheid noun (regular change or succession from one thing to another)
- wisselvalligheid noun (a change, especially in one's life or fortunes)
Finnish
2 entries- käänne noun (a change, especially in one's life or fortunes)
- vaihtelu noun (regular change or succession from one thing to another)
French
2 entries- vicissitude noun (regular change or succession from one thing to another)
- vicissitude noun (a change, especially in one's life or fortunes)
Georgian
2 entries- უკუღმართობა noun (a change, especially in one's life or fortunes)
- ცვალებადობა noun (regular change or succession from one thing to another)
German
4 entries- Unbeständigkeit noun (regular change or succession from one thing to another)
- Veränderung noun (a change, especially in one's life or fortunes)
- Wandel noun (regular change or succession from one thing to another)
- Wandel noun (a change, especially in one's life or fortunes)
Irish
1 entries- tréimhseacht noun (regular change or succession from one thing to another)
Italian
2 entries- vicissitudine noun (regular change or succession from one thing to another)
- vicissitudine noun (a change, especially in one's life or fortunes)
Korean
1 entries- 변천 noun (regular change or succession from one thing to another)
Latin
3 entries- vicissitās noun (a change, especially in one's life or fortunes)
- vicissitūdō noun (regular change or succession from one thing to another)
- vicissitūdō noun (a change, especially in one's life or fortunes)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- guherîn noun (regular change or succession from one thing to another)
- werçerx noun (a change, especially in one's life or fortunes)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- forandring noun (a change, especially in one's life or fortunes)
- omkalfatring noun (a change, especially in one's life or fortunes)
- omstyrtning noun (a change, especially in one's life or fortunes)
- omveltning noun (a change, especially in one's life or fortunes)
Polish
2 entries- zmiana noun (a change, especially in one's life or fortunes)
- zmienność noun (regular change or succession from one thing to another)
Portuguese
2 entries- vicissitude noun (regular change or succession from one thing to another)
- vicissitude noun (a change, especially in one's life or fortunes)
Romanian
1 entries- vicisitudine noun (a change, especially in one's life or fortunes)
Russian
4 entries- непостоя́нство noun (a change, especially in one's life or fortunes)
- превра́тность noun (a change, especially in one's life or fortunes)
- сме́на noun (regular change or succession from one thing to another)
- чередова́ние noun (regular change or succession from one thing to another)
Spanish
2 entries- vicisitud noun (regular change or succession from one thing to another)
- vicisitud noun (a change, especially in one's life or fortunes)
Turkish
3 entries- değişim noun (regular change or succession from one thing to another)
- değişim noun (a change, especially in one's life or fortunes)
- istikrarsızlık noun (regular change or succession from one thing to another)
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Among the vicissitudes incident to life, no event could have filled me with greater anxieties than that of which the notification was transmitted by your order, and received on the fourteenth day of the present month.
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The vicissitudes of war in Iraq cast a dreary backdrop for Donald Rumsfeld's first visit to Asian military allies since he became US Defense Secretary in 2001.
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Engaged intellectuals were obliged to take a stand on the side of progress and History, whatever the occasional moral vicissitudes.
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