Now rare. [f. next. See -ANCY and cf. It. vacillanza.] Vacillation.
1668. H. More, Div. Dial., I. xviii. That Vacillancy in humane Souls, and such Mutations as are found in corporeal matter.
1678. Sir G. Mackenzie, Crim. Laws Scot., I. i. § v. (1699), 8. The committing these Crimes may be occasioned by levity and vacillancy of judgment in minors.
a. 1680. Glanvill, Sadducismus, I. 95. That the weakness and vacillancy of this Method may yet more clearly appear.
1811. Chalmers, in Hanna, Mem. (1849), I. x. 253. My mind was in a state of vacillancy and discomfort.
