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fickleness|ˈfɪk(ə)lnɪs|
[f. fickle a. + -ness.]
The quality or state of being fickle.
†1. Falseness, deceit, treachery. Obs. rare.
c1397Chaucer Lack Stedf. 20 From Right to wronge from trowght to fekylnesse.
2. Changeableness, inconstancy, variableness.
1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Luke iv. 43 This iourneiyng from place to place was not the disease of ficlenesse or of vnstablenesse. 1665Boyle Occas. Refl. (1845) 291 The Mutability and Fickleness of Prosperity. 1716Addison Freeholder No. 25 ⁋1 There are some who ascribe this to the fickleness of our climate. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xxv, It could not be levity or fickleness of character which induced his daughter to act with so much apparent inconsistency. 1875Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. lxxxix. 2 All things savour of the changes of the moon and the fickleness of the sea. |