Vacillate

Definition of vacillate:

part of speech: participle

Vacillating.

part of speech: verb

To waver; fluctuate.

part of speech: verb

To sway to and fro: to waver: to be unsteady.

part of speech: participle

Vacillated.

part of speech: verb

To be changeable or uncertain in mind or opinion; to be unsteady; waver.

part of speech: noun

VACILLATION.

Usage examples for vacillate:

• Elizabeth, who at once began to vacillate under the combined threats of La Mothe, the French ambassador, and the arguments of the friend of Catholics, Lord Arundel, was counter- threatened with ruin by Lord Keeper Bacon unless she would throw in her lot finally with the Protestants and continue her hostility and resistance to the Catholic Scotch party. "By What Authority?", Robert Hugh Benson.