unconstancy
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English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]unconstancy (usually uncountable, plural unconstancies)
- Obsolete form of inconstancy.
- 1639, Thomas Fuller, “Damiata Besieged and Taken; the Christians Unadvisedly Refuse Honourable Conditions”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], →OCLC, book III, page 154:
- At their landing the moon was almoſt totally eclipſed: whence the Chriſtians conceited (gheſſe the frailneſſe of the building by the unconſtancy of the foundation) that the overthrow of the Mahometanes (whoſe enſigne was the Half-moon) was portended.
References
[edit]- “unconstancy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.