Caprice Definition

kə-prēs
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noun
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A disposition to be impulsive.
Wiktionary
A sudden, impulsive change in the way one thinks or acts; freakish notion; whim.
Webster's New World
A capricious quality or nature.
Webster's New World
A sudden, unpredictable action or change.
The caprices of the wind.
American Heritage
A capriccio.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Caprice

Noun

Singular:
caprice
Plural:
caprices

Origin of Caprice

  • French from Italian capriccio from caporiccio fright, sudden start (orginally, “head with the hair standing on end (resembling a hedgehog)”, but later influenced by capra goat, because of goats' frisky movements) capo head (from Latin caput kaput- in Indo-European roots) riccio curly (from Latin ēricius hedgehog) (from ēr)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Borrowing from French caprice, from Italian capriccio, from caporiccio (“fright, sudden start”): capo (“head”), from Latin caput + riccio (“curly”), from Latin ericius (“hedgehog”), or from Italian capro (“goat”)

    From Wiktionary

Caprice Sentence Examples

  • And who is in greater error than he who follows his own caprice without guidance from Allah.

  • His conduct was evidently regulated by strict principle and not by mere caprice.

  • As generally understood, Duns makes caprice supreme in God.

  • These fluctuations were owing partly to the character of Louis XV., and partly also to the fact that society in the 18th century was too advanced in its ideas to submit without resistance to the caprice of such a man.

  • Examination of titles in the Prophets and the Psalms (to say nothing of Ecclesiastes and Wisdom of Solomon) makes it evident that these have been added by late editors who were governed by vague traditions or fanciful associations or caprice, and there is no reason to suppose the titles in Proverbs to be .exceptions to the general rule.

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