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English
Adjective
vicissitous (comparative more vicissitous, superlative most vicissitous)
- (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