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unˈvarying, ppl. a.
(un-1 10.)
1690Locke Hum. Und. ii. xiv. §18 We cannot keep by us any standing unvarying measure of Duration. 1757Akenside Pleas. Imag. iii. 418 With contempt I gazed On that tame garb, and those unvarying paths. a1763Shenstone Elegies iii. 52 The generous rustics mourn'd the friendly swain, But Pow'r and Wealth's unvarying cheek was dry! 1803Mathias Purs. Lit. (ed. 12) 320 note, At the general..Boarding houses, the expences of which are liberal, unvarying, and regulated. 1825Southey Tale of Paraguay iv. xxx, All was verdant there throughout the unvarying year. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 96 Apparently endless walls of mangrove, unvarying in colour, unvarying in form, unvarying in height.
Hence unˈvaryingly adv.; unˈvaryingness.
1814Shelley Ess. & Lett. (1887) 151 Mediocrity alone seems unvaryingly to escape rebuke. 1851Spencer Soc. Stat. 40 An unvaryingness which renders the eclipse of a hundred years hence predicable to a moment! 1861Geo. Eliot Silas M. xvii, His..more wavering nature, too averse to facing difficulty to be unvaryingly simple and truthful. |