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vagary

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va·ga·ry  (vg-r, v-gâr)
n. pl. va·ga·ries
An extravagant or erratic notion or action.

[From Latin vagr, to wander, from vagus, wandering.]

vagary [vaig-a-ree]
Noun
pl -garies an unpredictable change in a situation or in someone's behaviour: I was unused to the vagaries of the retailer's world [probably from Latin vagari to roam]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.vagaryvagary - an unexpected and inexplicable change in something (in a situation or a person's behavior, etc.); "the vagaries of the weather"; "his wealth fluctuates with the vagaries of the stock market"; "he has dealt with human vagaries for many years"
alteration, change, modification - an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another; "the change was intended to increase sales"; "this storm is certainly a change for the worse"; "the neighborhood had undergone few modifications since his last visit years ago"

vagary
noun (usually plural) whim, caprice, unpredictability, sport, urge, fancy, notion, humour, impulse, quirk, conceit, whimsy, crotchet, sudden notion
Translations
vagary [ˈveɪgərɪ] ncapricho
vagary [ˈveɪgərɪ] ncaprice m
vagary [ˈveɪgərɪ] n the vagaries of → die Launen +gen
vagary [ˈveɪgərɪ] ncapriccio


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A vagary of nature, wherein she has displayed less of her infinite wisdom than is usual.
Half fainting from pain and exhaustion, D'Arnot watched from beneath half-closed lids what seemed but the vagary of delirium, or some horrid nightmare from which he must soon awake.
It just crossed her mind, too, that he might have a faint recollection of his tender vagary, and was disinclined to allude to it from a conviction that she would take amatory advantage of the opportunity it gave her of appealing to him anew not to go.
 
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