ppl. a. (UN-1 10.)
1593. Shaks., 3 Hen. VI., I. iv. 116. But that thy Face is Vizard-like, vnchanging,… I would assay … to make thee blush.
a. 1625. Fletcher, Fair Maid Inn, III. i. The husband Of my remembrance and unchanging vowes.
1709. Pope, Ess. Crit., 315. But true expression, like th’ unchanging Sun, Clears and improves whate’er it shines upon.
1757. W. Wilkie, Epigon., VII. 198. If fame’s unchanging voice to all the earth, With truth, proclaims you author of my birth.
1792. Burns, The Posie, 11. The hyacinth’s for constancy wi’ its unchanging blue.
1812. Sir H. Davy, Chem. Philos., 91. The summits [of the Andes] are covered with unchanging snows.
1856. Kane, Arct. Expl., I. xxv. 326. The horizon showed an unchanging circle of ice.
1875. Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), I. 456. The soul … being in communion with the unchanging is unchanging.
Hence Unchangingness.
1878. A. L. Walker, Lady’s Holm, II. viii. 163. No place … has the same look of unchangingness.
