vicissitude
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British, America) IPA: [vɨˈsɪs.ɨˌt(j)u(ː)d], [vaɪˈsɪs.ɨˌt(j)u(ː)d]
vicissitude (plural vicissitudes)
- Regular change or succession from one thing to another, or one part of a cycle to the next; alternation; mutual succession; interchange.
- Synonyms: ups and downs
- (often, in the plural) A change, especially in one's life or fortunes.
Seneca - Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, vii, 351,
- And God made.. the Stars, and set them in the firmament of Heaven to illuminate the Earth, and rule the day in their vicissitude...
- 2003, "US redeployments afoot in Asia", Christian Science Monitor, Nov. 18, Pg. 6.,
- 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.
- French: vicissitude
- German: Unbeständigkeit, Wandel
- Italian: vicissitudine
- Portuguese: vicissitude
- Russian: сме́на
- Spanish: vicisitud
- French: vicissitude
- German: Wandel, Wechsel, Veränderung
- Italian: vicissitudine
- Portuguese: vicissitude
- Russian: превра́тность
- Spanish: vicisitud
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