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unˈalterableness [f. prec.: see un-1 12.] The quality of being unalterable.
1620Bp. Hall Hon. Marr. Clergy i. xxii. 123 When he finds an vnalterablenesse in the determination of these degrees. 1649F. Roberts Clavis Bibl. 372 The unalterablenesse of Gods work. 1699Burnet 39 Art. xxxiv. 372 The Second Branch of this Article is against the Unalterableness of Laws made in matters indifferent. a1728Woodward Fossils i. 186 The Unalterableness of the Corpuscles. 1817Hazlitt Char. Shaks. (1838) 287 The unalterableness of his resolutions. 1850L. Hunt Autobiog. III. xxv. 283 A bull declaring the unalterableness of every papal dogma. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt xxxiv. III. 6 Our minds get tricks and attitudes as our bodies do—and age stiffens them into unalterableness. |