adv. (UN-1 11, 5 b.)
c. 1400. Found. St. Bartholomews (1923), 13. Those thyngis [given] to the chirche vnmoueably & stedfastly to beholde.
c. 1440. Gesta Rom., lvi. 240 (Harl. MS.). He that wolle not leeve synne, but lithe stille in synnys vnmevabely.
c. 1460. Oseney Reg., 161. And þat, as þenne markyng whas i-sette by boundes i-sett , Surely and vnmevabely hit be keped.
1513. Douglas, Æneid, IV. i. 33. Fix[i]t in my mynd unmovably, That [etc.].
a. 1555. R. Taylor, in Coverdale, Lett. Mart. (1564), 177. But God be praysed, I am vnmoueably setled vpon the rocke.
a. 1619. Fotherby, Atheom., I. iv. § 4 (1622), 23. A radicall conclusion, vnmoueably grounded in the heart of a man.
1683. Apol. Prot. France, vi. 75. The greatest Protectors of the holy See, to which they have always unmoveably held.
1743. J. Ellis, Knowl. Div. Th., 372. So the evil Angels are as unmoveably determined still to adhere to that which is Evil.