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vagaries
Part of speech: NounA wandering of the thoughts; a wild freak; a whimsical purpose.
Usage examples "vagaries":- The power to hold in check the vagaries of imagination may be gone. - "The Great Hunger", Johan Bojer.
- The first week's bill made Colonel Saville open his eyes, but his daughter explained with much suavity that, living so far from shops of every description, it was necessary to lay in a large stock of dried goods, so that one should be able to supplement a meal on the arrival of unexpected visitors, and also be independent of the vagaries of parcel post. - "More About Peggy", Mrs G. de Horne Vaizey.
- The vagaries of the French 'Prophets' also contributed to discredit the assumption of supernatural gifts in which many Quakers still indulged. - "The English Church in the Eighteenth Century", Charles J. Abbey and John H. Overton.