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  • adverb In a changeless manner.

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changeless +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • For, as it sees the matter, species (natural kinds) are also children of time, not changelessly present but ever-changingly emergent under the aegis of evolutionary principles.

    Process Philosophy Rescher, Nicholas 2008

  • Imagine God existing changelessly alone without creation, with a changeless and eternal determination to create a temporal world.

    Eternity Helm, Paul 2006

  • Smiling as changelessly as an ivory figurine she sat quiescent, avoiding thought, glancing about the living-room and hall, noting their betrayal of unimaginative commercial prosperity.

    Main Street 2004

  • The brown wall of cloud from the hills was now very near, rushing changelessly upon us with a loud grinding sound.

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

  • For he could be changelessly aware of events outside himself

    Immutability Leftow, Brian 2002

  • Overhead, the banners of the rings flew changelessly, ~s though they too had seen nothing-or perhaps, as though in the last six billion years they had seen everything, siftings upon siffings in oblivion, until nothing remained but the banners of their own mirrored beauty.

    Anywhen Blish, James 1970

  • We know it as a Life changelessly motionless and ever holding the Universal content [time, space, and phenomena] in actual presence; not this now and now that other, but always all; not existing now in one mode and now in another, but a consummation without part or interval.

    The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

  • In the one case, if the Pope had once defined a dogma, it was changeless; in the other, if the Bible had once formulated a pre-scientific cosmology, or used demoniacal possession as an explanation of disease, or personified evil in a devil, all such mental categories were changelessly to be received.

    Christianity and Progress Harry Emerson Fosdick

  • And thus it is in life, each passing moment flowing on with all its changes beside the stern, hard, enduring monument of the irrevocable past on which what is written is changelessly written.

    Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

  • As we sat in the little omnibus that carried us from the station to the town, with my precious boxes safely stored on the roof, we passed between grey fields whose featureless expanses melted changelessly into the grey sky overhead.

    The Ghost Ship Richard Middleton

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