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Definition
to change one's mind back and forth between conflicting ideas
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to sway back and forth
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to sway back and forth
- When the relations of a couple are vacillating and neither one thing nor the other, no sort of enterprise can be undertaken.Part Seven (70% in)
vacillating = changing one's mind back and forth between conflicting ideas
or:
swaying back and forth
or:
swaying back and forth
- Round the samovar and the hostess the conversation had been meanwhile vacillating in just the same way between three inevitable topics: the latest piece of public news, the theater, and scandal.Part Two (14% in)
There are no more uses of "vacillate" in Anna Karenina.
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