All 3 Uses of
capricious
in
Don Quixote
- Know that Camilla's fortress has surrendered and is ready to submit to my will; and if I have been slow to reveal this fact to thee, it was in order to see if it were some light caprice of hers, or if she sought to try me and ascertain if the love I began to make to her with thy permission was made with a serious intention.†
Chpt 1.33-34caprice = impulsiveness or unpredictability
- Here one curses her and calls her capricious, fickle, and immodest, there another condemns her as frail and frivolous; this pardons and absolves her, that spurns and reviles her; one extols her beauty, another assails her character, and in short all abuse her, and all adore her, and to such a pitch has this general infatuation gone that there are some who complain of her scorn without ever having exchanged a word with her, and even some that bewail and mourn the raging fever of jealousy, for which she never gave anyone cause, for, as I have already said, her misconduct was known before her passion.†
Chpt 1.51-52capricious = impulsive or unpredictable
- Fortune made me the victim of her caprices;
Chpt 2.65-66 *caprices = impulsive actions or unpredictable events
Definition:
impulsive or unpredictable or tending to make sudden changes -- especially impulsive behavior