constant
adjective
unconstant
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a word derived from
constant.
Example Sentences
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Of fortune as thou learn'dst to be unkind, So learn to be unconstant to disdain.
From Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles Delia - Diana by Martha Foote Crow
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 John Fletcher
And sith the lots of our unconstant fate Have turn'd our former bliss to wretched state, I am content to tread the woful dance, That sounds the measure of our hapless chance.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 by William Carew Hazlitt
For the unconstant lovers are commonly the best humoured; but let them be what they will, women ought not to be unfaithful for Virtue's sake and their own, nor to offend by example.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Isaac Disraeli
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 David Hume
