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Vicissitude


VICIS'SITUDE, noun [Latin vicissitudo; from vicis, a turn.]

1. Regular change or succession of one thing to another; as the vicissitudes of day and night, and of winter and summer; the vicissitudes of the seasons.

2. Change; revolution; as in human affairs. We are exposed to continual vicissitudes of fortune.