vacillancy
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
vacillancy (usually uncountable, plural vacillancies)
- (archaic) The quality or state of being vacillant; waveringness
- 1668, Franciscus Euistor the Palæopolite [pseudonym; Henry More], “(please specify the page)”, in Divine Dialogues, Containing Sundry Disquisitions & Instructions Concerning the Attributes of God and His Providence in the World. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Joseph Downing […], published 1713, →OCLC:
- that vacillancy in human souls
References edit
- “vacillancy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.