Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not variable; invariable; constant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Invariable.
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- adjective obsolete
Invariable .
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Examples
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If it does give me a reason, it will because it is keyed in some way into an unvariable, underived reason.
Moral Particularism Dancy, Jonathan 2009
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In all which this is constant and unvariable, That every more general term stands for such an idea, and is but a part of any of those contained under it.
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Similar circumstances produce the same unvariable effects.
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Miss Grits in her precise, unvariable voice would read out the fruits of their work.
The Complete Stories Waugh, Evelyn 1998
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But this would prove expressly destructive unto that certain and unvariable rule of church-communion which the Lord Christ hath fixed and established, whereof we shall speak again afterward.
A Discourse concerning Evangelical Love, Church Peace, and Unity 1616-1683 1965
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_Santonine_ is a remedy which I have used for years, and I have treated many hundreds of cases, with such unvariable success, that I feel disinclined to use or to recommend any other.
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No certain unvariable rules can be given about it; but it must be left to the prudence of the parents or tutor.
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To take the instance of a face -- we may never see it again, or it may become the companion of our life, but there the picture is just as we/first/knew it, the same smile or frown, the same look, unvarying and unvariable, reminding us in the midst of change of the indestructible nature of every experience, act, and aspect of our days.
Colonel Quaritch, V.C. A Tale of Country Life Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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Everything was fixed by law; even pictures must be drawn in a certain way, thoughts must be expressed by stated and unvariable symbols.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 Rossiter Johnson 1885
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They tell us that all genius is prophetic, inasmuch as it grasps general laws, universal in their range, and unvariable in their operation, the application of which to particular events constitutes prediction.
Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity Robert Patterson 1857
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