† unconstantlyadv.
Obsolete.
= inconstantly adv.
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the world > time > change > changeableness > [adverb]
ficklya1300
unconstantlya1542
changefully1615
up and down1643
ticklish1661
titter-totter1673
upon the float1768
titubantly1861
weathercock-wise1874
wimble-wamble1890
rockily1895
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [adverb]
ficklya1300
unconstantlya1542
inconstantly1549
unsteadfastly1559
chameleon-like1589
changefully1615
unsteadily1709
a1542 T. Wyatt Coll. Poems (1969) v. 14 O cruel causer of vnderserued chaunge By great desire vnconstantly to raunge.
1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 128 Philosophie is..not a play or prittle prattle, vnconstantly vttered to obtaine honor onely.
1608 T. Middleton Familie of Love (new ed.) i. sig. A3 v As chaffe which when Our nourishing graynes are winnow'd from them, Vnconstantly they flye.
1650 T. Hobbes Humane Nature v Consider..how unconstantly names have been settled, and how subject they are to equivocation.
1714 J. Fortescue-Aland in J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. Pref. 7 The others have only Names and Words, and such as some~times are unconstantly used.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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adv.a1542- make a game on
- make a get
- make a getaway
- make a girdle about
- make a girdle round about
- make a go of
- make a go of it
- make a gold
- make a good face
- make a good fist
- make a good job of
- make a good landfall
- make a good penny of, by, from
- make a good show
- make a good thing of
- make a good thing out of
- make a good, etc, go of
- make a good, poor, etc, showing
- make a grand slam
- make a great face
- make a grimace or grimaces
- make a hack in the post
- make a haggis of
- make a hames of
- make a hand