va-et-vientn.
/va eɪ ˈvjã/ Coming and going, toing and froing; commerce, exchange; bandying (of argument).
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the world > time > change > exchange > [noun]
change?c1225
changingc1350
interchangingc1374
exchangec1384
permutationa1398
commutation1496
achange1530
chopping and changing1548
interchange1548
exchanging1553
promutation1560
intercourse1576
counterchange1579
chopping1581
counter-cambio?1592
interchangementa1616
commerce1631
swapping1695
barter1819
counterchanging1881
switching1904
va-et-vient1919
switch-around1981
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > [noun] > movement back and forth
course and recourse1461
backing and filling1777
come-and-go1794
to and fro1847
toing and froing1847
va-et-vient1919
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > controversy, dispute, argument > [noun]
pleac1275
distancec1325
stance14..
in controversyc1432
disceptation1447
disputation1489
disception1492
concertation1509
controversity1528
contending1561
fending and proving1583
digladiation?1591
bandying1599
contestation1602
controverting1610
wrangling1612
contesting1616
rixation1623
contestion1632
controversarya1635
contest1642
vitilitigation1647
ergoteering1687
sparring1755
hash1789
controversying1865
argle-bargle1872
wringle-wrangle1882
argy-bargy1887
polemicizing1948
va-et-vient1959
1919 R. Fry Let. 3 Nov. (1972) II. 465 There is..a considerable va et vient of Paris artists.
1933 G. Arthur Septuagenarian's Scrap Bk. 18 For a large percentage of women life, day in day out, is a happy va-et-vient, sometimes rich in excellent results of practical value, sometimes only resolving itself into a flutter of delicious nothings.
1959 C. Spry Favourite Flowers iii. 28 Looking back over the quite gentle va-et-vient of this argument I know that really we are in agreement.
1966 Guardian 19 Mar. 7/4 All the well-intentioned wordy va-et-vient about Capote's book.
1978 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 23 Feb. 8/3 In one university which has an art school, a history of art department, and a school of architecture and planning within five hundred yards of one another, the influence of one upon the other, or even the va et vient among the three, is virtually nonexistent.
1981 Times Lit. Suppl. 22 May 563/2 His whole teasing va-et-vient between the past and the present, at one moment restricting himself to ‘period’ viewpoint.., at the next speaking as from the 1970s.
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