Both Uses of
vacillate
in
Anna Karenina
- 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 2vacillating = changing one's mind back and forth between conflicting ideas OR swaying 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 7 *
Definition:
to move back and forth between different choices, positions, or states