whimsicality

  • 131caprice — ca•price [[t]kəˈpris[/t]] n. 1) a sudden, unpredictable change, as of one s mind or of the weather; vagary 2) a tendency to change one s mind without apparent or adequate motive; whimsicality; capriciousness 3) mad capriccio 1) • Etymology:… …

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  • 132Sterne, Laurence — (1713 1768)    Novelist, s. of an officer in the army, and the great grandson of an Archbishop of York, was b. at Clonmel, where his father s regiment happened to be stationed, and passed part of his boyhood in Ireland. At the age of 10 he was… …

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