unconstant
- a word derived from constant.
Example Sentences
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Nay then, my Lord you go too far, and tax him Whose innocencie understands not what feare is; If your unconstant daughter will not dwell On certainties, must you thenceforth conclude, That I am fickle?
From The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Volume 2 of 10: Introduction to the Elder Brother by Fletcher, John
And left for every lazy Groom to say, I was unconstant, light, and sooner lost Than the quick Clouds we see, or the chill Frost When the hot Sun beats on it.
From The Faithful Shepherdess The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (Volume 2 of 10). by Beaumont, Francis
As, firstly, Declining of Judicature, or faultering, faulty, unconstant, and contrary Answers, upon judicial and deliberate examination.
From The Wonders of the Invisible World Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches by Mather, Cotton
Of fortune as thou learn'dst to be unkind, So learn to be unconstant to disdain.
From Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles Delia - Diana by Crow, Martha Foote
It is a probable good or evil, that commonly produces hope or fear; because probability, being a wavering and unconstant method of surveying an object, causes naturally a like mixture and uncertainty of passion.
From A Treatise of Human Nature by Hume, David
