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wavering

adj

Etymology

From waver + -ing.

  1. derived from *webʰ-✻ — “to braid, weave”
  2. derived from *webaną✻ — “to weave”
  3. derived from vafra — “to move unsteadily, flicker”
  4. derived from *wabjaną✻ — “to cause to weave; to entangle; to wrap”
  5. derived from *wabbjan✻ — “to cause to weave; to entangle; to wrap”
  6. derived from wafian — “to wave”
  7. inherited from waveren — “to move back and forth, swing; to move unsteadily, totter; to shake, tremble; to wander; (figurative) to be changeable or unstable; to deviate”
  8. suffixed as wavering — “waver + ing”

Definitions

  1. Fluctuating, uncertain, undetermined, unsteady.

  2. Being in doubt

    Being in doubt; indecisive.

  3. gerund of waver

    gerund of waver: a state of fluctuation or indecision.

    • the waverings of politicians, trying to please everybody
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. present participle and gerund of waver

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at wavering. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at wavering. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at wavering

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA