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stableness Now rare.|ˈsteɪb(ə)lnɪs|
Also 4–5 stablynesse, 6 stablynes.
[f. stable a. + -ness.]
The quality or condition of being stable: = stability.
a1300Cursor M. 23541 Bot in þat mikel stabilnes [v.r. stablenes, stabulnes], Sal nan yerne be bot þat he es. c1374Chaucer Boeth. iv. vi. 30 Al that moeveth in any manere, taketh his causes..of the stablenesse of the divyne thoght. c1400Rule St. Benet (Prose) lxii. 40 Þe reule of stabilnes. 1421Hoccleve Compl. 9 Stablenes in this worlde is there none; there is no thinge but chaunge and variaunce. 1561T. Hoby tr. Castiglione's Courtyer iii. (1577) O iv, I impute it to the surenesse and stablenesse of the woman, and wauering of the man. 1605Shakes. Macb. iv. iii. 92. 1646 P. Bulkeley Gospel Covt. v. 360 He grounds the truth and certainty of the promise upon the stablenesse of God's counsell. 1702Earl of Marchmont in Lond. Gaz. No. 3819/3 Her Stableness in, and Fidelity to, the Protestant Religion. 190919th Cent. Oct. 677 Disconcerting to our sense of stableness and identity. |