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Meaning of vicissitous | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

Of a life or career: involving changes of fortune.

dated

Examples

“The Prudential, which had a vicissitous youth, has arrived at a fortune that has established its name in every part of the world and carried its President into the United States Senate.”

“1967, A. Roman and Company, Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine The weakness of Governor Foote's vicissitous career in connection with public affairs may be properly ascribed to an apparent vacillation or eccentricity, which he at times displayed […]”

CEFR level

C1

Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

See also

vicissitudinary vicissitudinous vicissitudious Vicodined Viconian vicontiel