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A change in circumstances or fortune, often unwelcome or difficult.
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- vicissitudes of life
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They endured the vicissitudes of exile.
A fresh vicissitude unsettled the household.
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Primary category: literary. Forms: Singular vicissitude; plural vicissitudes. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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