vicissitude

IPA: vɪsˈɪsɪtud

Regular change or succession from one thing to another, or one part of a cycle to the next; alternation; mutual succession; interchange.
(often in the plural) A change, especially in one's life or fortunes.

Examples of "vicissitude" in Sentences

Never, in the days of vicissitude that came later, did Taiwun doubt my claim of Korean birth.
And here we see, by a kind of vicissitude and return, it kindles hell itself for the calumniator.
I followed her like a duckling, learning how to glide smoothly upon the waters of writerly vicissitude.
It is given that travail and vicissitude mark time to man's footsteps as he stumbles onward toward the grave; and it is well.
All of us to a greater or lesser degree have a streak of psychopathy which makes every vicissitude of human experience – including our own – potential writing fodder.
All of us to a greater or lesser degree have a streak of psychopathy which makes every vicissitude of human experience – including our own – potential writing fodder ….
In a letter to his son written in 1537, he looked back on a life of vicissitude; "a thousand dangers and hazards, enmities, hatreds, prisonments, despites and indignations".
Surprised By Joy, composed some time after her death, is the most touching of elegies, the movement of the verse mirroring the movement of the body, heart and mind, the simplicity of diction shockingly enriched by the Latinate "vicissitude".
The fact, of course, is that it is just the variety of experience which makes life interesting, -- toil and rest, pain and relief, hope and satisfaction, danger and security, -- and if we once remove the idea of vicissitude from life, it all becomes an indolent and uninspiring affair.