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   vicissitude

   /vɪˈsɪsɪtjuːd/

   noun

   • 1. a change of circumstances or fortune, typically one that is unwelcome or unpleasant: "her husband's sharp vicissitudes of fortune"
   • 2. alternation between opposite or contrasting things: literary "the vicissitude of the seasons"

   Word Origin early 17th century (in the sense ‘alternation’): from French, or from Latin vicissitudo, from vicissim ‘by turns’, from vic- ‘turn, change’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. vicissitudinous adjective

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