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unˈchangeable, a.
[un-1 7 b and 5 b.]
That cannot change or be changed; not liable to change; immutable, invariable.
Also, in recent use, ‘not exchangeable’.
a1340Hampole Psalter iv. 9 It is tendant in til lastandnes and vnchaungeabile ioy. c1340― Pr. Consc. 8232 How God invysible es, And unchaungeable, and endles. 1382Wyclif Job xv. 15 Among his seintus noon is vnchaungable. c1430Life St. Kath. xiii. (1884) 28 For god is vnbodyly inuisible and vnchaungeable. 1434Misyn Mending Life 106 Qwhat is turnyng fro god bot turnynge fro guyde vnchawngabyll to guyde chawngabyll. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 271 b, Seynge in spiryt the immutable or vnchaungeable trewth of god. 1587Golding De Mornay iv. (1592) 44 By this terme Vnchangeable we deny him to be lyke the immortall soules, which admit passions. a1610Healey Cebes (1636) 152 Shee giueth the true knowledge of profitable things a gift of unchangeable goodnesse and security. 1676Hale Contempl. i. 191 An eternal state of unchangeable and perfect happiness shall succeed. 1732Berkeley Alciphr. vi. §31 Although the light of truth be unchangeable. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. I. xx. 341 They..talk of a friend or a mistress as fixed and unchangeable as the winds. 1817J. Scott Paris Revisit. (ed. 4) 71 The latter method will inevitably produce..a more unchangeable fidelity. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xiv. III. 450 The thousands of clergymen, who had so loudly boasted of the unchangeable loyalty of their order. 1867H. Macmillan Bible Teach. xvi. 322 About the average age of forty, when the character becomes unchangeable.
absol.1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 535 For the unchangeable is never older or younger. |