Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for VI-CIS'SI-TUDE
VI'CIOUS-NESSVI-CIS-SI-TU'DIN-A-RY
VI-CIS'SI-TUDE, n. [L. vicissitudo; from vicis, a turn.]
- Regular change or succession of one thing to another; as the vicissitudes of day and night, and of winter and summer; the vicissitudes of the seasons.
- Change; revolution; as in human affairs. We are exposed to continual vicissitudes of fortune.
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