a. U.S. = VICISSITUDINOUS a.

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1865.  E. Burritt, Walk to Land’s End, 165. A city set upon such a hill could not have been hidden in the vicissitous experiences of a nation.

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1892.  Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, 9 June. About all of them reach their affluence … along the same vicissitous road.

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