vacillancy

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

VAC'ILLANCY, noun [Latin vacillans, from vacillo, to waver, Eng. to waggle, from the root of wag, which see.] A state of wavering; fluctuation; inconstancy.
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