ppl. a. [UN-1 8.] Unaltered.

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1387.  Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), II. 431. [To] chaunge þe liknesse wiþ oute and leue þe kynde vnchaunged wiþ ynne.

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c. 1420.  Lydg., Ballad Commend. Our Lady, 95. Thu louyst hem unchaungid þat serue the.

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1532.  More, Confut. Tindale, 135. He shold rather haue kepte styll the worde presbyteros vnchaunged, bycause that worde is yt yt sygnyfyeth authoryte wyth the grekes.

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a. 1586.  Sidney, Arcadia, I. v. (1912), 34. Malice sooner ceased, then her unchanged patience.

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1633.  P. Fletcher, Purple Isl., X. xli. The faces change prov’d th’ hearts unchanged grace.

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1667.  Milton, P. L., VII. 24. More safe I Sing with mortal voice, unchang’d To hoarce or mute.

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1718.  Prior, Solomon, I. 64. Whilst the distinguish’d Yew is ever seen, Unchang’d his Branch, and permanent his Green.

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1794.  Mrs. Radcliffe, Myst. Udolpho, xxxiv. Tell him my heart is unchanged.

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1827.  Scott, Highl. Widow, v. Noon found him in the same unchanged posture.

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1894.  Sir E. Sullivan, Woman, 23. Throughout Asia and Africa the relative position of women, legal and social, is unchanged.

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  Hence Unchangedness.

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1880.  Mrs. Craik, Poems, Immutable, 31. Yet still Our change yearns after Thine unchangedness.

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