vicissitous

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English

Adjective

vicissitous (comparative more vicissitous, superlative most vicissitous)

  1. (dated) Of a life or career: involving changes of fortune.
    • 1902, The Insurance Economist, volume 26, page xxvi:
      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