[f. prec. + -NESS.] Immutability.
1548. Elyot, Immutabilitas,… vnchaungeablenesse, constancie.
1587. Golding, De Mornay, xvii. (1592), 279. Surely the vnchangeableness of Spirits was created to depend vppon their linking in with their maker.
1607. Hieron, Wks., I. 156. The stablenesse and vnchangeablenesse of that worke of saluation which is wrought by Christ Jesus.
a. 1653. Gouge, Comm. Heb. xii. (1655), 271. The Apostle giveth us to understand … the unchangeablenesse of the Gospel.
1736. Chandler, Hist. Persec., 51. He expressly asserts the immutability and unchangeableness of the Son.
1777. Priestley, Matt. & Spir. (1782), I. xvi. 190. The eternity and unchangeableness of the first cause stands upon the very same grounds.
1827. Faraday, Chem. Manip., ii. 28. This is fully compensated by the unchangeableness in weight.
1871. Jowett, Plato, I. 427. The realm of purity, and eternity, and immortality, and unchangeableness.
