adv. (UN-1 11, 5 b.)

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c. 1400.  Found. St. Bartholomew’s (1923), 13. Those thyngis … [given] to the chirche vnmoueably & stedfastly to beholde.

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c. 1440.  Gesta Rom., lvi. 240 (Harl. MS.). He that … wolle not … leeve synne,… but lithe stille in synnys vnmevabely.

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c. 1460.  Oseney Reg., 161. And þat, as þenne markyng whas i-sette by boundes i-sett…, Surely and vnmevabely hit be keped.

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1513.  Douglas, Æneid, IV. i. 33. Fix[i]t in my mynd unmovably, That [etc.].

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a. 1555.  R. Taylor, in Coverdale, Lett. Mart. (1564), 177. But God be praysed,… I am vnmoueably setled vpon the rocke.

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a. 1619.  Fotherby, Atheom., I. iv. § 4 (1622), 23. A radicall … conclusion, vnmoueably grounded in the heart of a man.

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1683.  Apol. Prot. France, vi. 75. The greatest Protectors of the holy See, to which they have always unmoveably held.

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1743.  J. Ellis, Knowl. Div. Th., 372. So the evil Angels are as unmoveably determined still to adhere to that which is Evil.

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