Definitions
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- noun The quality of being
unchanging ;constancy .
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- noun the quality of being unchangeable; having a marked tendency to remain unchanged
Etymologies
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Examples
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In the last moments of his dying coma he was locked in a statis field which keeps him in a state of perpetual unchangingness.
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy Adams, Douglas 1996
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In the last moments of his dying coma he was locked in a statis field which keeps him in a state of perpetual unchangingness.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1979
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You have to travel through it, the unchangingness, day after day.
The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967
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So it was that Hind and not Abu Simbel came to be thought of by Jahilians as the embodiment of the city, its living avatar, because they found in her physical unchangingness and in the unflinching resolve of her proclamations a description of themselves far more palatable than the picture they saw in the mirror of Simbel's crumbling face.
The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967
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From that unchangingness, change had to emerge, and from that self-cloistered Life its derivative, this which breathes and stirs, the respiration of the still life of the divine.
The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952
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There was a feeling of unchangingness about the wonderfully holding summer weather, and the general lazy routine, that was as delightful as it was illusive.
The Wishing-Ring Man Margaret Widdemer 1931
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She was the noblest creature that they knew; her beauty, her great unswerving love, her truth, were things bearing to their child eyes the unchangingness of God's stars in heaven.
A Lady of Quality 1896
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She was the noblest creature that they knew; her beauty, her great unswerving love, her truth, were things bearing to their child eyes the unchangingness of God's stars in heaven.
A Lady of Quality Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886
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If you desire to be firm, you must draw your firmness from the unchangingness of that divine nature which you grasp.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah Alexander Maclaren 1868
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It took rapid and yet critical note of him, with a look that Faith knew through its unchangingness, scanned, judged, and passed sentence.
Say and Seal, Volume II Susan Warner 1852
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