Both Uses
vacillate
in
Middlemarch
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- I know of nothing to make me vacillate.†
Chpt 1 *
- On the whole his surmises, in addition to what he knew of the fact, increased his friendliness and tolerance towards Ladislaw, and made him understand the vacillation which kept him at Middlemarch after he had said that he should go away.†
Chpt 6vacillation = changing one's mind back and forth between conflicting ideas OR swaying back and forth
Definitions:
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(1)
(vacillate) to move back and forth between different choices, positions, or states
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)