Word of the Day - vicissitude
Dictionary.com: vicissitude
vicissitude \vih-SIS-ih-tood; -tyood\, noun:
1. Regular change or succession from one thing to another; alternation; mutual succession; interchange.
2. Irregular change; revolution; mutation.
3. A change in condition or fortune; an instance of mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another).
This man had, after many vicissitudes of fortune, sunk at last into abject and hopeless poverty.
– Thomas Macaulay
December 3rd, 2007 at 10:59 am
This word showed up as an ad in gmail. It caught my eye because I have been listening to the Intelligent investor audio book by Benjamin Graham and he uses this word over and over and I had no idea what it meant. It must have been popular back in his day!