Vacillation

Definition of vacillation:

part of speech: noun

Wavering of mind; unsteadiness; changeableness.

Usage examples for vacillation:

• I request my countrymen not to be soothed into inactivity by that temporising, and, I will say, unmanly vacillation "Political Pamphlets", George Saintsbury.

• The men despise vacillation and chopping and changing. "No Man's Land", H. C. McNeile.

• From the near vision of that certainty he fell back on suspense and vacillation with a sense of repose. "Silas Marner The Weaver of Raveloe", George Eliot.

• You have left me where you found me- in the same fine, free, and liberal state of vacillation "The Cardinal's Snuff-Box", Henry Harland.