fickleness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FICK'LENESS, noun 1. A wavering; wavering disposition; inconstancy; instability; unsteadiness in opinion or purpose; as the fickleness of lovers. 2. Instability; changeableness; as the fickleness of fortune.
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