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s | vicissitude |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun vicissitude is

regular change or succession from one thing to another, or one part of a cycle to the next; alternation; mutual succession; interchange.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    vicissitude

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • * 1667 , , Paradise Lost , vii, 351,
    • And God made.. the Stars, and set them in the firmament of Heaven to illuminate the Earth, and rule the day in their vicissitude ...
  • * 2003 , "US redeployments afoot in Asia", Christian Science Monitor , Nov. 18, Pg. 6.,
    • The vicissitudes of war in Iraq cast a dreary backdrop for Donald Rumsfeld's first visit to Asian military allies since he became US Defense Secretary in 2001.
  • * Seneca
    • Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

    Synonyms

    * ups and downs (informal)

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