adv. Obs. [f. prec.] = INCONSTANTLY adv.
a. 1542. Wyatt, Sonnet, ‘Alas the greefe,’ iii., in Anglia, XVIII. 275. O cruell causer of vndeserued chaunge, by greatt desire vnconstantly to raunge.
1586. T. B., La Primaudaye’s Fr. Acad., I. 121. Philosophie is … not a plaie or prittle prattle, unconstantlie uttered to obtaine honor onelie.
1607. Middleton, Fam. Love, I. ii. As chaff, which when our nourishing grains Are winnow’d from them, unconstantly they fly.
1650. Hobbes, Hum. Nat., v. Consider … how unconstantly names have been settled, and how subject they are to equivocation.
1714. Fortescue-Aland, Pref. Fortescue’s Abs. & Lim. Mon., 7. The others have only Names and Words, and such as sometimes are unconstantly used.
