vacillancy en · NOUN
Etymology
From Latin vacill- + -ancy.
Meanings
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(archaic, uncountable, usually) The quality or state of being vacillant; waveringness.
But for my part, I vvill […] grant that God is mutable; but deny that all Mutability implies Imperfection, though ſome does, as that Vacillancy in humane Souls, and ſuch Mutations as are found in corporeal matter.
1668, Franciscus Euistor the Palæopolite [pseudonym; Henry More], “The First Dialogue”, in Divine Dialogues, Containing Sundry Disquisitions & Instructions Concerning the Attributes of God and His Providence in the World. […], London: […] James Flesher, →OCLC, paragraph XVIII, page 74:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| vacillancies | Number=Plur | lexicographic |