Unalterableness

[f. prec.: see UN-¹ 12.] The quality of being unalterable.

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1620. Bp. Hall, Hon. Marr. Clergy, I. xxii. 123. When he finds an vnalterablenesse in the determination of these degrees.

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1649. F. Roberts, Clavis Bibl., 372. The unalterablenesse of Gods work.

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1699. Burnet, 39 Art., xxxiv. 372. The Second Branch of this Article is against the Unalterableness of Laws made in matters indifferent.

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a. 1728. Woodward, Fossils, I. 186. The Unalterableness of the Corpuscles.

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1817. Hazlitt, Char. Shaks. (1838), 287. The unalterableness of his resolutions.

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1850. L. Hunt, Autobiog., III. xxv. 283. A bull declaring the unalterableness of every papal dogma.

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1866. Geo. Eliot, F. Holt, xxxiv. III. 6. Our minds get tricks and attitudes as our bodies do—and age stiffens them into unalterableness.

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