ppl. a. (UN-1 10.)
1690. Locke, Hum. Und., II. xiv. § 18. We cannot keep by us any standing unvarying measure of Duration.
1757. Akenside, Pleas. Imag., III. 418. With contempt I gazed On that tame garb, and those unvarying paths.
a. 1763. Shenstone, Elegies, iii. 52. The generous rustics mourn’d the friendly swain, But Pow’r and Wealth’s unvarying cheek was dry!
1803. Mathias, Purs. Lit. (ed. 12), 320, note. At the general … Boarding houses, the expences of which are liberal, unvarying, and regulated.
1825. Southey, Tale of Paraguay, IV. xxx. All was verdant there throughout the unvarying year.
1897. Mary Kingsley, W. Africa, 96. Apparently endless walls of mangrove, unvarying in colour, unvarying in form, unvarying in height.
Hence Unvaryingly adv.; Unvaryingness.
1814. Shelley, Ess. & Lett. (1887), 151. Mediocrity alone seems unvaryingly to escape rebuke.
1851. Spencer, Soc. Stat., 40. An unvaryingness which renders the eclipse of a hundred years hence predicable to a moment!
1861. Geo. Eliot, Silas M., xvii. His … more wavering nature, too averse to facing difficulty to be unvaryingly simple and truthful.
