vacillation

IPA: væsʌɫˈeɪʃʌn

Examples of "vacillation" in Sentences

This kind of vacillation and avoidance only feeds those fears.
That's what I call vacillation, and you ought to be ashamed of it. "
What we call vacillation is to have no fixed opinion, to be influenced at once by the opinions of others.
The word “if” in the original passage is only a polite expression and does not denote any kind of vacillation or option.
Their hesitancy was due to an innate, congenital lack of determination -- that same hideous curse of vacillation which is responsible for so much misery in human life.
Early in the day his supporters had thought little of this, attributing the fall to that vacillation which is customary in such matters; but towards the latter part of the afternoon the tidings from the
He made a charge, bending his head first towards John Eames, and then, with that weak vacillation which is as disgraceful in a bull as in a general, he changed his purpose, and turned his horns upon his other enemy.
This disposition of the mind, which arises from two contrary emotions, is called vacillation; it stands to the emotions in the same relation as doubt does to the imagination (II.xliv. note); vacillation and doubt do not differ one from the other, except as greater differs from less.