immutability

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Those who seek to find support for sanctioned homoeroticism in Scripture typically view the Bible as a book that allows a much broader range of interpretation and denial of Biblical commands and their immutability, and many evidence that they allow a vast range of metaphorical interpretation within historical narratives.

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  1. The quality of being immutable; immutableness; unchangeableness; invariableness. God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath. Heb. vi. 17. The Egyptians are the Healthiest People of the World, by reason of the immutability of their Air. Greenhill, Art of Embalming (ed. 1705), p. 147.

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  • The censors had him substitute ;favorable winds Elsewhere Galileo had called the immutability of the heavens ;not only false, but erroneous and repugnant to the indubitable truth of Scripture, ; and he had attributed the new astronomy to divine inspiration. —  Galileo in Rome
  • Apart from the FP properties (such as immutability, high-order functions, closures etc.) —  Jonas Bonér
  • Addressing the issue of immutability, the court found sexual orientation to be central to personal identity and that its alteration, if at all, could only be accomplished at the expense of significant damage to the individual's sense of self. —  Latest Articles
  • Those who seek to find support for sanctioned homoeroticism in Scripture typically view the Bible as a book that allows a much broader range of interpretation and denial of Biblical commands and their immutability, and many evidence that they allow a vast range of metaphorical interpretation within historical narratives. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • If the compiler can enforce immutability, then it would be trivial to write an erlang-like messaging library or a a parallelized linear algebra implementation.
 

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  1. = French immutabilité = Spanish inmutabilidad = Portuguese immutabilidade = Italian immutabilità, from Latin immutabilita(t-)s, inmutabilita(t-)s, unchangeableness, from immutabilis, inmutabilis, unchangeable: see immutable.
 

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