Wavering
['weivəriŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Waver
Typist: Patricia
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Vacillation, fluctuation, indecision, indetermination, hesitancy, uncertainty.
a. Unsettled, vacillating, fickle, unsteady, unstable, changeable.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
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Examples
- There is not a shadow of wavering. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- She cannot choose for herself to be strong in this fancy, wavering in that, and weak in the other. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- You're desperate hard upon me, gen'l'men,' said Gamfield, wavering. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Let them rise, said a voice behind us; a thin, wavering voice, yet one that had evidently been accustomed to command for many years. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- His manners, however, must have been unmarked, wavering, dubious, or she could not have been so misled. Jane Austen. Emma.
- The shock of this retort had the effect of crystallizing Selden's wavering intentions. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- And was not Dorset, to whom his glance had passed by a natural transition, too jerkily wavering between the same extremes? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- She was weak and wavering; she had neither tact nor intelligence, decision nor dignity. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- However, I temporized with myself, of course--for, was I not wavering between right and wrong, when the thing is always done? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- No; I prefer that there should be no interval left for wavering. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Yet hitherto our star has been a vacillating and wavering star? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Never wavering, he never even stopped to make an inquiry until we were within a few miles of London. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The way led through a maze of tortuous corridors, unlighted save for the wavering light they carried. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Its vacillating effulgence seems to say that its state, even like ours upon earth, is wavering and inconstant; it fears, methinks, and it loves. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- She did not take any notice of the wavering, indistinct, lambent Birkin, who stood at his side. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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