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fluctuating, ppl. a.|ˈflʌktjuːeɪtɪŋ|
[f. prec. + -ing2.]
That fluctuates.
1. Moving as or in waves; irregularly rising and falling.
1712Blackmore Creation i. 44 The fluctuating Fields of liquid Air. 1762Falconer Shipwr. iii. (1790) 267 Hills of fluctuating fire. 1767Gooch Treat. Wounds I. 353 With some fluctuating motion of a fluid.
2. Irregularly varying; unsteady; unsettled, wavering.
1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. §49 So fluctuating and unsteady a testimony is the applause of popular councils. a1679T. Goodwin Just. Faith ii. ii. viii, Driven about with the Whirlpools of a fluctuating Conscience. 1720Welton Suffer. Son of God II. xxxi. 799 They knew how Fluctuating the Opinion of the Mobb is. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. II. 113 The doubtful, fluctuating conduct of Vetranio. 1837Lytton E. Maltrav. 24 And copied out his poetry in a small, fluctuating hand. 1867A. Barry Sir C. Barry vii. 249 The fluctuating nature of the attendance.
absol.1833Lamb Elia Ser. ii. Pop. Fallacies, Sharp distinctions of the fluctuating and the permanent. |