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Vacillating definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

VAC'ILLATING, ppr.
1. Wavering; reeling; fluctuating.
2. a. Unsteady; inclined to fluctuate.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: uncertain in purpose or action [syn: vacillant, vacillating, wavering]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Vacillate Vac"il*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Vacillated; p. pr. & vb. n. Vacillating.] [L. vacillare, vacillatum; cf. Skr. va[~n]c.] 1. To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to waver. [A spheroid] is always liable to shift and vacillatefrom one axis to another. --Paley. 2. To fluctuate in mind or opinion; to be unsteady or inconstant; to waver. Syn: See Fluctuate.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Vacillating Vac"il*la`ting, a. Inclined to fluctuate; wavering. --Tennyson. -- Vac"il*la`ting*ly, adv.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Wavering, fluctuating, unsteady, inconstant.

Moby Thesaurus

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