Meaning of vicissity | Babel Free

Definitions

A change, as of fortune.

in-plural, rare

Examples

“While to your ears, a father does unfold / The various scenes by turns which checquer'd o'er / My life, vicissities of bliss and woe. / When our offended Maker deem'd to cheer⟳ / Offending man, with promises of love⟳, / And reconciling mercy, tell⟳ me, Eve, / Associate dear, in fortune's every change⟳, / …”

“It is well enough known that species of the lower forms of plant⟳ life, such as ferns and mosses amid the vicissities of change⟳ of situation, have⟳ spread⟳ over both hemispheres without such a departure from the central type⟳ as would constitute a distinct species; but is this true as regards higher forms, such as cycads and conifers?”

“Thomas Jefferson Gentry, an aspiring young lawyer, becomes a protege of Tammany, experiences all the vicissities of politics, and throws himself upon the mercies of Peggy McShane, a blue-eyed Irish lass, who heroically accepts him.”

“Seeing things thus will have⟳ their course, their appointed changes and vicissities, no contrivance or labor of men can prevent⟳ it.”

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