vacillation

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

VACILLA'TION, noun [Latin vacillatio.] 1. A wavering; a moving one way and the other; a reeling or staggering. 2. Fluctuation of mind; unsteadiness; change from one object to another.
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