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† unˈconstantly, adv. Obs.
[f. prec.]
= inconstantly adv.
a1542Wyatt Sonnet, ‘Alas the greefe’ iii, in Anglia XVIII. 275 O cruell causer of vndeserued chaunge, by greatt desire vnconstantly to raunge. 1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. i. 121 Philosophie is..not a plaie or prittle prattle, unconstantlie uttered to obtaine honor onelie. 1607Middleton Fam. Love i. ii, As chaff, which when our nourishing grains Are winnow'd from them, unconstantly they fly. 1650Hobbes Hum. Nat. v, Consider..how unconstantly names have been settled, and how subject they are to equivocation. 1714J. Fortescue-Aland Pref. Fortescue's Abs. & Lim. Mon. 7 The others have only Names and Words, and such as some⁓times are unconstantly used. |