It has become an uneventful, unchanging story—one that reflects the peace process it arguably aims to protect.
For a moment in the book we get a glimpse of the Laura Bush beneath her pleasant, unchanging smile.
Some can seem as clear as a mug shot, each element identifiable and unchanging.
He was very pale: but that unchanging pallor was the only sign of the malady from which he suffered.
His influence upon the world was an unchanging one for evil.
Or that which is changing be the copy of that which is unchanging?
Their career from this moment was one of unchanging success.
There were things in him now that could never be a part of the unchanging old shop.
He did not play cards, or drink wine: he was ever sober and of unchanging mood.
Yet there is one unchanging law of God's dealing with men underlying them all.
c.1200, "act or fact of changing," from Anglo-French chaunge, Old French change "exchange, recompense, reciprocation," from changier (see change (v.)).
Meaning "a different situation" is from 1680s. Meaning "something substituted for something else" is from 1590s. The financial sense of "balance returned when something is paid for" is first recorded 1620s; hence to make change (1865). Bell-ringing sense is from 1610s. Related: changes. Figurative phrase change of heart is from 1828.
early 13c., "to substitute one for another; to make (something) other than what it was" (transitive); from late 13c. as "to become different" (intransitive), from Old French changier "to change, alter; exchange, switch," from Late Latin cambiare "to barter, exchange," from Latin cambire "to exchange, barter," of Celtic origin, from PIE root *kemb- "to bend, crook" (with a sense evolution perhaps from "to turn" to "to change," to "to barter"); cf. Old Irish camm "crooked, curved;" Middle Irish cimb "tribute," cimbid "prisoner;" see cant (n.2). Meaning "to take off clothes and put on other ones" is from late 15c. Related: Changed; changing. To change (one's) mind is from 1610s.
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Money: a sizable chunk of change (1880s+)
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