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vacillatory, a.|ˈvæsɪlətərɪ|
[f. vacillate v.]
1. Marked by vacillation.
a1734North Examen i. i. (1740) 25 If ever such vacillatory Accounts of Affairs of State, Kings and Monarchies, were given in Print before, I am mistaken. a1835McCulloch Attributes (1837) xlii. III. 89 The details are far too numerous or obscure or vacillatory to admit of a place here. 1851Hawthorne Twice-told T. II. viii. 118 My political course, I must acknowledge, has been rather vacillatory.
2. Of persons: Tending to vacillate.
1854Milman Lat. Chr. vii. iii. III. 183 Hildebrand..for the first time..is vacillatory, hesitating, doubtful. 1876Trollope Amer. Senator xxxiv, The Postmaster, half vacillatory, in his desire to oblige a neighbour produced the letter. |