[f. next.] The quality of being unsteady.
1611. Cotgr., Volubilité,… vnsteadinesse, or an inconstant mouing.
1646. H. Lawrence, Comm. Angels, 120. The cause of loosenes, and laxenesse, and unsteddines in our course.
1698. Fryer, Acc. E. India & P., 2. The unsteadiness of the Weather.
1722. Wollaston, Relig. Nat., v. (1724), 85. If things are now and then mis-shaped, this infers no unsteadiness or mistake in nature.
1796. Mme. D’Arblay, Camilla, v. 7. The unsteadiness of the boat.
1808. Mitford, Hist. Greece, III. 88. The gross evils inherent in the Athenian constitution; its irremediable unsteadiness, its gross tyranny.
1869. Tanner, Clin. Med. (ed. 2), 289. The insidious form begins by numbness,… unsteadiness on the legs… till the loss of power is complete.
1875. Economist, 16 Jan., 68/1. The unsteadiness of the [stock-] markets.
