All 4 Uses of
waver
in
Don Quixote
- These reflections made him waver in his purpose, but his craze being stronger than any reasoning, he made up his mind to have himself dubbed a knight by the first one he came across, following the example of others in the same case, as he had read in the books that brought him to this pass.†
Chpt 1.1-2
- But who is there in the world that can boast of having fathomed or understood the wavering mind and unstable nature of a woman?†
Chpt 1.27-28 *wavering = moving back and forth; or being unsure or weak
- The instant I heard the notice I quitted the city with my servant, who now began to show signs of wavering in his fidelity to me, and the same night, for fear of discovery, we entered the most thickly wooded part of these mountains.†
Chpt 1.27-28
- With these resolutions, more honourable than judicious or effectual, she remained the next day listening to Lothario, who pressed his suit so strenuously that Camilla's firmness began to waver, and her virtue had enough to do to come to the rescue of her eyes and keep them from showing signs of a certain tender compassion which the tears and appeals of Lothario had awakened in her bosom.†
Chpt 1.33-34
Definition:
to move back and forth (shake or quiver)
or:
to change, be unsure, or weak
or:
to change, be unsure, or weak