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Meanings of caprice in English

Portuguese
desejo
Catalan
caprici
Spanish
impulso

A sudden desire.

        desejo
        Russian
        каприз
        Spanish
        capricho
        Catalan
        caprici

        Sudden, unpredictable change as of one's mind.

              каприз
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              Examples for "impulse"
              Examples for "impulse"
              1
              The solution was more the result of an impulse than careful planning.
              RUNNER
              2
              The savage has only impulse; the civilized man has impulses and ideas.
              Poor Relations
              3
              The impulse behind H&F's ambitions seems to come from a different place.
              The Guardian
              4
              In the spirit of mischief, he followed the impulse of the moment.
              The Actress in High Life / An Episode in Winter Quarters
              5
              Still, quite a lot of the original impulse behind MacKaye's vision survives.
              A walk in the woods: rediscovering america on the appalachian tr...
              1
              His choice of the Netherlands, however, was not taken on a whim.
              The Guardian
              2
              Government controlled economic activity became an unemployment mop, activated on ministerial whim.
              The Irish Times
              3
              Money could no longer be printed at will or on a whim.
              The Guardian
              4
              Ideally he did; but it was just a fleeting expression or whim.
              Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America
              5
              The idle whim of a sardonic old man; nothing more than that.
              The Adventures of Kathlyn

              Caprice, an English translation of the Italian word “capriccio”, which refers to a category of paintings, usually presents a group of architecture in a fictional manner.

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                    Usage of caprice in English
                    1
                    Despotism is the madness of power; in women the despot is caprice.
                    Poor Relations
                    2
                    You've insulted me; I can be very vicious, simply out of caprice.
                    Nova
                    3
                    Poets have, in all ages, called this the caprice of the waves.
                    The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
                    4
                    The root for caprice even shares a root word for your sign.
                    Ebony
                    5
                    There was, perhaps, in his conduct something of the caprice of contempt.
                    J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3 / The Haunted Baronet (1...
                    6
                    For in my heart I feel that this remorse is but caprice.
                    The Battle of the Strong: A Romance of Two Kingdoms — Volume 5
                    7
                    Woman is regarded as only a plaything to gratify the animal caprice.
                    The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English / or,...
                    8
                    The light, willowy machines are subject to every caprice of the wind.
                    Aeroplanes
                    9
                    Of a surety, this is the maddest caprice the Hathors ever wrought.
                    The Yoke / A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Chil...
                    10
                    In other words she was constant and true, without whims or caprice.
                    Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos / T...
                    11
                    Perhaps I was a fool or the victim of some supernal caprice.
                    The Confession of a Child of the Century
                    12
                    In her suffering condition, she was liable to sudden fits of caprice.
                    The Black Robe
                    13
                    I verily believe we are directing the girl to dissect a caprice.
                    The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative
                    14
                    The caprice may strike them to-morrow to cut us out for good.
                    Angel Island
                    15
                    That it was not innate caprice he was more and more certain.
                    The Mayor of Casterbridge
                    16
                    Perhaps I was a fool, or the victim of some supernatural caprice.
                    The Confession of a Child of the Century — Volume 1
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