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Change of mind   /tʃeɪndʒ əv maɪnd/   Listen
Change of mind

noun
1.
A decision to reverse an earlier decision.  Synonyms: flip-flop, reversal, turnabout, turnaround.






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"Change of mind" Quotes from Famous Books



... on any subject you choose to select with pleasure," said the judge, "if you'll tell me what it was that led to your change of mind about my probable action in this matter of your friend's ...
— The Simpkins Plot • George A. Birmingham

... the green park, set in brightly-tinted trees, all aglow in the morning sunshine. Tears had sprung on his cheeks, and a suppressed sob heaved his chest. Julius ventured to say, "Perhaps there may yet be a change of mind." ...
— The Three Brides • Charlotte M. Yonge

... been concluded (1544), made it necessary for Henry not to close the door against an alliance with the Protestant princes of Germany by an attack on Cranmer, who was regarded by them as an active sympathiser. Once indeed Henry ordered that the archbishop should be arrested, but a sudden change of mind took place, and the order for the ...
— History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance • Rev. James MacCaffrey

... said, "my heart is glad this day, for I am sure that you may trust the word of Rushing River. Something of his change of mind I have heard of in the course of my wanderings, but I had not been sure that there was truth in ...
— The Prairie Chief • R.M. Ballantyne

... of pardon. The Epistle to the Hebrews gives the same description of Esau when it states that he "for one mess of meat, sold his own birthright. For ye know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place for change of mind, though he sought it diligently with tears," Heb 12, 16-17. Thus in the present instance, Cain feels his punishment, but he grieves more for his punishment than for his sin. And all persons, when in despair, ...
— Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II - Luther on Sin and the Flood • Martin Luther

... nose, were fifty-seven varieties of the reptiles, big and small, streaked and checkered, quiet and active. After much remonstrance and waiting, I came-to—gazed at the markings, beautiful in their exactness—while slowly the change of mind took place. Faith took the place of fear, calmness subdued panic, and I was wondrously delivered from the veritable bondage of a score of years. And so it is that the mother suffers and then the child suffers, ...
— The Mother and Her Child • William S. Sadler

... advisable to take in the matter of Michael's release. Magdalen felt it would be well-nigh impossible to go direct to Wentworth, even if he had been at Barford. But he had been summoned to London the day before on urgent business. And with Fay even a day's delay might mean a change of mind. It was essential ...
— Prisoners - Fast Bound In Misery And Iron • Mary Cholmondeley

... my memory, but blurred, confused, beyond clear recall. Yet all that she was, looked, said, aye, or left the clearer for being unsaid, is graven on my memory in lines that no years obliterate and no change of mind makes hard to read. She wore the great diamond necklace whose purchase was a fresh text with the serious, and a new jest for the wits; on her neck it gleamed and flashed as brilliantly and variously as the dazzling turns in her talk and the ...
— Simon Dale • Anthony Hope



Words linked to "Change of mind" :   deciding, afterthought, turnabout, second thought, turnaround, reconsideration, reversal, rethink, decision making



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