ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

dogged; sullen, sulky; unmoved, uninfluenced unaffected.
willful, self-willed, perverse; resty † , restive, restiff † ; pervicacious † , wayward,
refractory, unruly; heady, headstrong; entete [Fr.]; contumacious; crossgrained † .
arbitrary, dogmatic, positive, bigoted; prejudiced &c 481; creed-bound; prepossessed,
infatuated; stiff-backed, stiff necked, stiff hearted; hard-mouthed, hidebound; unyielding;
impervious, impracticable, inpersuasible † ; unpersuadable; intractable, untractable † ;
incorrigible, deaf to advice, impervious to reason; crotchety &c 608.
Adv. obstinately &c adj..
Phr. non possumus [Lat.]; no surrender; ils n'ont rien appris ne rien oublie [Fr.].
607. Tergiversation -- N. change of mind, change of intention, change of purpose;
afterthought.
tergiversation, recantation; palinode, palinody † ; renunciation; abjuration † , abjurement;
defection &c (relinquishment) 624; going over &c v.; apostasy; retraction, retractation † ;
withdrawal; disavowal &c (negation) 536; revocation, revokement † ; reversal; repentance
&c 950; redintegratio amoris [Lat.].
coquetry; vacillation &c 605; backsliding; volte-face [Fr.].
turn coat, turn tippet † ; rat, apostate, renegade; convert, pervert; proselyte, deserter;
backslider; blackleg, crawfish [U.S.], scab [Slang], mugwump [U.S.], recidivist.
time server, time pleaser † ; timist † , Vicar of Bray, trimmer, ambidexter † ; weathercock
&c (changeable) 149; Janus.
V. change one's mind, change one's intention, change one's purpose, change one's note;
abjure, renounce; withdraw from &c (relinquish) 624; waver, vacillate; wheel round, turn
round, veer round; turn a pirouette; go over from one side to another, pass from one side
to another, change from one side to another, skip from one side to another; go to the
rightabout; box the compass, shift one's ground, go upon another tack.
apostatize, change sides, go over, rat; recant, retract; revoke; rescind &c (abrogate)
756; recall; forswear, unsay; come over, come round to an opinion; crawfish [U.S.],
crawl [U.S.].
draw in one's horns, eat one's words; eat the leek, swallow the leek; swerve, flinch,
back out of, retrace one's steps, think better of it; come back return to one's first love; turn
over a new leaf &c (repent) 950.
trim, shuffle, play fast and loose, blow hot and cold, coquet, be on the fence, straddle,
bold with the hare but run with the hounds; nager entre deux eaux [Fr.]; wait to see how
the cat jumps, wait to see how the wind blows.
Adj. changeful &c 149; irresolute &c 605; ductile, slippery as an eel, trimming,
ambidextrous, timeserving † ; coquetting &c v.. revocatory † , reactionary.
Phr. a change came o'er the spirit of my dream [Byron].
608. Caprice -- N. caprice, fancy, humor; whim, whimsy, whimsey † , whimwham † ;
crotchet, capriccio, quirk, freak, maggot, fad, vagary, prank, fit, flimflam, escapade,
boutade [Fr.], wild-goose chase; capriciousness &c adj.; kink.
V. be capricious &c adj.; have a maggot in the brain; take it into one's head, strain at a
gnat and swallow a camel; blow hot and cold; play fast and loose, play fantastic tricks;
tourner casaque [Fr.].