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changeability|tʃeɪndʒəˈbɪlɪtɪ| Also 4 chaungeablete. [In its ME. form, a. OF. changeableté: see changeable, and -ity.] The quality of being changeable. a. = changeableness. b. Capability of being changed.
1388Wyclif 1 Sam. xv. 11 marg., Repenting, whanne it berith chaungeablete, may not be in God. 1413Lydg. Pylgr. Sowle ii. li. (1859) 54 Chaungeabylyte of wylle. 1496Dives & Paup. (W. de W.) vi. x. 248/1 Freelte and unstabylyte and chaungeabylyte. 1785F. Burney Diary (1842) II. 384 Her emphasis has that sort of changeability, which gives an interest to everything she utters. 1866Argyll Reign Law vi. (1871) 319 The changeability of phenomena through human agency. |