vicissitous
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]vicissitous (comparative more vicissitous, superlative most vicissitous)
- (dated) Of a life or career: involving changes of fortune.
- 1902, The Insurance Economist, volume 26, page xxvi:
- The Prudential, which had a vicissitous youth, has arrived at a fortune that has established its name in every part of the world and carried its President into the United States Senate.
- 1967, A. Roman and Company, Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine
- The weakness of Governor Foote's vicissitous career in connection with public affairs may be properly ascribed to an apparent vacillation or eccentricity, which he at times displayed […]