Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Inconstancy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Inconstancy.
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- noun Obsolete form of
inconstancy .
Etymologies
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Examples
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When the author says, "Je ne sais pas lequel est le plus cruel, de perdre tout à coup la femme qu'on aime par son inconstance, ou par sa mort," he says one of the final things finally.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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And especially in "Emile," at the end of the fourth book, the pleasures which Rousseau would enjoy if he were rich.] [Footnote 4142: See in Marivaux, ( "La double inconstance,") a satire on the court, courtiers and the corruptions of high life, opposed to the common people in the country.] [Footnote 4143: Bachmaumont, I. 254.] [Footnote 4144: "A calculator was required for the place but a dancer got it."
The Ancient Regime Hippolyte Taine 1860
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