Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or condition of being changeless.
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- noun The state or quality of being
changeless .
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- noun the property of remaining unchanged
- noun the quality of being unchangeable; having a marked tendency to remain unchanged
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Examples
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What Villages of Britain tells us loud and clear is that rural communities, whose appeal rests on their perceived changelessness, are always in a state of flux.
Villages of Britain: The Five Hundred Villages that Made the Countryside by Clive Aslet – review Kathryn Hughes 2010
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For, if one conclusion stands out more clearly than another from the recent study of early societies it is the changelessness of man as a social being.
Polanyi on the market Daniel Little 2009
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For, if one conclusion stands out more clearly than another from the recent study of early societies it is the changelessness of man as a social being.
Archive 2009-07-01 Daniel Little 2009
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We cherish the old stories for their changelessness.
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We cherish the old stories for their changelessness.
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Aquinas says that between the unqualified changelessness of God's eternity and the qualified changeableness of corporeal existence, there is the qualified immutability of angelic being.
Process Theism Viney, Donald 2008
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The eternity and changelessness of God is thus dynamic not static.
On The Same Old Thing Mike L 2007
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The eternity and changelessness of God is thus dynamic not static.
Archive 2007-06-01 Mike L 2007
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If God is outside time, there may also be a secure foundation explaining God's immutability (changelessness), incorruptibility and immortality.
Philosophy of Religion Taliaferro, Charles 2007
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Carson's topical jokes showed a barometric sensitivity to shifts in the national mood -- when his monologues made Richard Nixon their butt, that was the ball game -- but equally important was the host's carefully crafted casualness and the show's changelessness: The New York Times's Frank Rich called it "as formulaic and reassuring as Kabuki."
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