vacillancy

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English

Etymology

From vacillant +‎ -cy.

Noun

vacillancy (usually uncountable, plural vacillancies)

  1. (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

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