vacillancy

English

Etymology

From vacillant +‎ -cy.

Noun

vacillancy (usually uncountable, plural vacillancies)

  1. (archaic) The quality or state of being vacillant; waveringness.
    • 1668, Franciscus Euistor the Palæopolite [pseudonym; Henry More], “The First Dialogue”, in Divine Dialogues, Containing Sundry Disquisitions & Instructions Concerning the Attributes of God and His Providence in the World. […], London: […] James Flesher, →OCLC, paragraph XVIII, page 74:
      But for my part, I vvill […] grant that God is mutable; but deny that all Mutability implies Imperfection, though ſome does, as that Vacillancy in humane Souls, and ſuch Mutations as are found in corporeal matter.

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