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caprice
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synonyms: vagary, figary, whim ???
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Definition:1. An abrupt change in feeling, opinion, or action, proceeding from some whim or fancy; a freak; a notion.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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"Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last for ever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer."
Oscar Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Whatever your conduct may have been, I do not consider myself justified in breaking the ties in which we are bound by a Higher Power. The family cannot be broken up by a whim, a caprice, or even by the sin of one of the partners in the marriage, and our life must go on as it has done in the past.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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He was rather too indulgent in humouring her caprices; not from affection, but from pride
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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But he may please to consider, that the caprices of womankind are not limited by any climate or nation, and that they are much more uniform, than can be easily imagined.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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What if a former caprice (a freak very possible to a nature so sudden and headstrong as his) has delivered him into her power,
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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