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1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) l. 9702 (MED) Affeccyoun wyth-owtyn chaungabylnesse.

c1450 ( J. Walton tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Linc. Cathedral 103) 257 (MED) Euery naturel progressioun Þat in his beynge haþ chaungeablenesse.

a1500 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Trin. Dublin) (1893) 127 (MED) Þat þou mowe beholde my clernes wiþoute shadue of changhabilnes.

1541 R. Whitford Dyuers Holy Instrucyons & Teachynges f. 56 The fyfte impediment and let of spiritual profete, good spede and increas of perfection: is inconstance vnstedfastnes chaungeablenes.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. xxxv. 192 One kinde of these [Irises] beareth floures betwixte purple and blewe, with a certayne changeablenes, especially in the nethermost leaues.

1641 R. Bernard Threefold Treat. Sabbath 66 This was for an admittance of the Changeablenesse of the day.

1695 Ld. Preston tr. Boethius Of Consol. Philos. ii. 49 (note) Considering the Changeableness of Fortune.

1709 J. Addison Tatler No. 121. ⁋5 The changeableness of the Weather.

1790 S. Stearns Tour from London to Paris xxvii. 127 Such is the changeableness and discontented tempers of many, that they would be for ever altering that which is even good and complete.

1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton I. xi. 206 She soon became aware of the present state of Mary's feelings, but she thought they merely arose from the changeableness of girlhood.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People v. §1. 215 The old sneer at the changeableness of woman.

1909 A. G. Bradley Wiltshire viii. 49 The climate of Great Britain, though often abused for its dampness, changeableness, and lack of sunshine,..is remarkably equable.

1946 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 90 195/2 A basic tendency certainly runs through all his changeableness.

2010 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. (Nexis) 12 Sept. 3 c His intellectual volatility—the changeableness of his ideas—..has made his leadership seductive but inconsistent.