vacillant

[ vas-uh-luhnt ]

adjective

1. wavering; hesitant; indecisive; vacillating. vacillating.

Word History and Origins

Origin of vacillant¹

1515–25; < Latin vacillant- (stem of vacillāns ), present participle of vacillāre to vacillate; -ant

Example Sentences

He was at that time a weak and vacillant youth, given over to the same pleasures and vices which drove his father mad and caused his brother's death.

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And life became as easy to bear as a vacillant vision seen in dream.

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The business could not hold young Weldon's vacillant temperament for long; neither could Diana.

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