to waver; to waffle | wavering; waffling | wavers; waffles | wavered; waffled [Add to Longdo]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Waver \Wa"ver\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Wavered}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Wavering}.] [OE. waveren, from AS. w[ae]fre wavering,
restless. See {Wave}, v. i.]
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1. To play or move to and fro; to move one way and the other;
hence, to totter; to reel; to swing; to flutter.
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With banners and pennons wavering with the wind.
--Ld. Berners.
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Thou wouldst waver on one of these trees as a terror
to all evil speakers against dignities. --Sir W.
Scott.
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2. To be unsettled in opinion; to vacillate; to be
undetermined; to fluctuate; as, to water in judgment.
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Let us hold fast . . . without wavering. --Heb. x.
23.
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In feeble hearts, propense enough before
To waver, or fall off and join with idols. --Milton.
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Syn: To reel; totter; vacillate. See {Fluctuate}.
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