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changeless, a.|ˈtʃeɪndʒlɪs|
[f. change n. + -less. Not in Bailey or Johnson.)]
Without change, unchanging, immutable.
1580Sidney Arcadia ii. 215 Thus for each change my changelesse heart I fortifie. 1592Warner Alb. Eng. viii. xxxvii. (R.) Vnto the cuckooe..she Adjudg'd a spring-time's changeles note. 1636Healey Epictetus' Man. 101 O changelesse fate, direct mee to the end. a1700Sheffield (Dk. Buckhm.) Letter fr. Sea, As changeless as my mind. 1847M. Bowly in Bk. Praise 438 Free and changeless is His favour. 1875Manning Mission H. Ghost iv. 101 God alone is changeless.
Hence ˈchangelessly adv., ˈchangelessness.
1808J. Webster Nat. Philos. in Education III. No. 6. 560 The Chinese idea of the Infinite was that of changelessness. 1840Gladstone Ch. Princ. 7 The changelessness..of the church in the fundamental truths of the Gospel. 1902W. Watson Coron. K. Edw. VII iii, And changelessly the river sends his sigh Down leagues of hope and fear. 1910Times 21 Mar. 6/1 The axis round which the policy of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy changelessly revolves. |