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inalterable, a.|ɪnˈɔːltərəb(ə)l|
[in-3.]
Not alterable; not subject to alteration or change; unchangeable, immutable; unalterable.
1541R. Copland Galyen's Terapeut. 2 E j, The impatable and inalterable thynges to be the fyrste elementes. 1555Bonner Necess. Doctr. 69 For the Godhed is inalterable and unpassible. a1653Gouge Comm. Heb. vi. 2 The sentence at the last judgement will be inalterable. 1876Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. ii. Wordsw. 211 He was to make men better, by opening to them the sources of an inalterable well-being. 1879G. Meredith Egoist I. xviii. 331.
Hence inalteraˈbility, unchangeableness; inˈalterably adv., immutably.
1631Gouge God's Arrows iii. §78. 329 God was inalterably resolved utterly to destroy Amalek. 1714Derham Astro-Theol. (1715) 75 note, Contrary to the received Opinion then, of the Heavens inalterability. 1856W. A. Miller Elem. Chem. §564 From its lightness and inalterability in the air, aluminum has been applied to the preparation of small weights. 1878W. E. Henley in Academy 12 Oct. 355/1 Hopelessly and inalterably poor. |