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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
vicissitude /vɪˈsɪsɪtjuːd, vʌɪ-/

▶noun

1 a change of circumstances or fortune, typically for the worse.

2 literary alternation between contrasting things.

– derivatives
vicissitudinous /-ˈtjuːdɪnəs/ adjective.

– origin C17: from Fr., or from L. vicissitudo, from vicissim ‘by turns’, from vic- ‘turn, change’.

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