alterablenessn.

1633 W. Ames Fresh Suit against Human Ceremonies i. vii. 77 Of the perpetuity of Divine Ceremon. there is no quæstion, of the alterablenes of humaine,..That is a corrupt rule which the Rej. addeth viz. that they are alterable.

1655 W. Gouge & T. Gouge Learned Comm. Hebrewes (xii. 27) iii. 373 The Apostle giveth us to understand.. i. The alterablenesse of the Law.

1705 E. Calamy Def. Moderate Nonconformity III. 249 I am indeed very sensible of her Publick Declaration of the alterableness of the Ceremonies.

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Alterableness, the quality of being alterable, or admitting change from external causes.

1818 S. T. Coleridge Marginalia (1998) IV. 383 It seems odd to call the alterableness of Temperature Decomponibility.

1874 J. H. Newman Tracts 321 That alterableness and imperfection, which the anti-Catholic schools affixed to their notion of the Word.

1929 N. K. Smith tr. I. Kant Crit. Pure Reason (1965) 205 Alterableness is to be met with only in certain determinations of appearances.

2006 S. Houlgate Opening Hegel's Logic x. 191 It includes the alterableness of being, although the category itself, namely being, of which it is the determination, is not altered by it.