vicissitude

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His tone is nothing if not complicit: “I was named Olaudah, which, in our language signifies vicissitude or fortune; also one favoured, and having a loud voice and well-spoken.”

From The Guardian • Aug. 7, 2017

I was named Olaudah, which, in our language, signifies vicissitude or fortune also, one favoured, and having a loud voice and well spoken.

From Slate • Jun. 3, 2015

It calls for poise, concentration, vitality and, above all, for a kind of instinctive communion with the camera that comes partly from inner fiber, partly from vicissitude and long practice.

From Time Magazine Archive

Never before, in a life of terrible vicissitude, of much suffering, of many dangers, have I seen the human being who could move me as you have done.

From Checkmate by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

And the wardrobe woman told the truth—it was merely a striking example, a pitiful vicissitude of "the life of the stage."

From Chicago's Awful Theater Horror by Various