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† unˈconstancy Obs.
[un-1 12 and 5 b.]
1. = inconstancy 1.
1548Elyot, Instabilitas, vnconstancie, instabilitee. 1583Golding Calvin on Deut. i. 2 Because he saw the lightnes and unconstancy of the people. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. i. v. §2 We see..the leuitie and vnconstancie of mens iudge⁓ments. 1652J. Wright tr. Camus' Nat. Paradox ii. 45 The thoughts of them..who are not Reeds of the Desart in unconstancy, but Pillars of the Temple of Stability. 1699Burnet 39 Art. xxviii. 335 The scandalous Unconstancy of the Councils of those Ages.
2. = inconstancy 2.
1587Golding De Mornay xi. (1592) 162 The vnmoouable decree of his euerlasting Prouidence, which..directeth all the vnconstancies of this world to one certeine end. 1627in Rushw. Hist. Coll. (1659) I. 485 The Frame of other States are subject, some to Unconstancy, some to Faction..and to many Distempers. 1650Baxter Saints' R. i. vii. (1662) 95 But there is none of this unconstancy, nor mixtures in Heaven. |