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unˈvariable, a. Now rare.
(un-1 7 b and 5 b.)
c1425St. Mary of Oignies ii. vii. in Anglia VIII. 169/40 Þe most souerayn sympyl and vnvaryabil mageste. c1440Pallad. on Husb. i. 354 Grauellis dolue in iij naturis vary: In red, & hoor, & blak vnvariable. a1586Spenser De Mornay (1587) i. 5 Wee must imagine..of all these so constant diuersities, one (vnuariable) alwaies like it selfe. 1624Wotton Elem. Archit. 8 A steadie and vnuariable light. 1697Collier Ess. Mor. Subj. ii. 189 It becomes the Greatness of the Deity, to work by the most comprehensive, unvariable Methods. 1738Warburton Div. Legat. II. 213 In the fullest and most unvariable Manner. 1759Johnson Rasselas xlviii, She..would gladly be fixed in some unvariable state. 1896W. M. Thomson Leaders of Chr. & Anti-Chr. Th. 7 To impose a fixed and unvariable creed is to build prison walls round the soul.
Hence unˈvariableness; unˈvariably adv.
1611Florio, Inuariabilita, vnuariablenesse. 1644Featly Roma Ruens 7 The immutability of our faith, or unvariablenesse of the doctrine..of the church. 1734Kames Decis. Crt. Sess. (1799) 13 The real right..continues unvariably the same till the last farthing be recovered. |