1. = INCONSTANCY 1.
1548. Elyot, Instabilitas, vnconstancie, instabilitee.
1583. Golding, Calvin on Deut. i. 2. Because he saw the lightnes and unconstancy of the people.
1605. Bacon, Adv. Learn., I. v. § 2. We see … the leuitie and vnconstancie of mens iudgements.
1652. J. Wright, trans. Camus’ Nat. Paradox, II. 45. The thoughts of them … who are not Reeds of the Desart in unconstancy, but Pillars of the Temple of Stability.
1699. Burnet, 39 Art., xxviii. 335. The scandalous Unconstancy of the Councils of those Ages.
2. = INCONSTANCY 2.
1587. Golding, De Mornay, xi. (1592), 162. The vnmoouable decree of his euerlasting Prouidence, which … directeth all the vnconstancies of this world to one certeine end.
1627. in Rushw., Hist. Coll. (1659), I. 485. The Frame of other States are subject, some to Unconstancy, some to Faction … and to many Distempers.
1650. Baxter, Saints’ R., I. vii. (1662), 95. But there is none of this unconstancy, nor mixtures in Heaven.
