Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Unalterableness.
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- noun the quality of not being alterable
- noun the quality of being fixed and unchangeable
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Examples
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On the third point: the indissolubility and unalterability of which
Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas 1954
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He read on her set lips the unalterability of her determination.
The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel John Maurice Miller
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Aluminum is used principally in castings and drawn and pressed ware, for purposes in which lightness, malleability, and unalterability under ordinary chemical reagents are desired.
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[237] I insist upon this unalterability of colour the more because I address you as a beginner, or an amateur; a great artist can sometimes get out of a difficulty with credit, or repent without confession.
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859
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a much higher idea of change than I had previously entertained; and though, as you know, never very stubborn about unalterability of specific type, I never felt so shaky about species before.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 Charles Darwin 1845
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