c. 1425. St. Mary of Oignies, II. vii. in Anglia, VIII. 169/40. Þe most souerayn sympyl and vnvaryabil mageste.
c. 1440. Pallad. on Husb., I. 354. Grauellis dolue in iij naturis vary: In red, & hoor, & blak vnvariable.
a. 1586. Spenser, De Mornay (1587), i. 5. Wee must imagine … of all these so constant diuersities, one (vnuariable) alwaies like it selfe.
1624. Wotton, Elem. Archit., 8. A steadie and vnuariable light.
1697. Collier, Ess. Mor. Subj., II. 189. It becomes the Greatness of the Deity, to work by the most comprehensive, unvariable Methods.
1738. Warburton, Div. Legat., II. 213. In the fullest and most unvariable Manner.
1759. Johnson, Rasselas, xlviii. She … would gladly be fixed in some unvariable state.
1896. W. M. Thomson, Leaders of Chr. & Anti-Chr. Th., 7. To impose a fixed and unvariable creed is to build prison walls round the soul.
Hence Unvariableness; Unvariably adv.
1611. Florio, Inuariabilita, vnuariablenesse.
1644. Featly, Roma Ruens, 7. The immutability of our faith, or unvariablenesse of the doctrine … of the church.
1734. Kames, Decis. Crt. Sess. (1799), 13. The real right … continues unvariably the same till the last farthing be recovered.
