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- adjective
superlative form ofunstable : mostunstable .
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I have often said, looking at him as a manager of great London theatres, “This Man, presiding over the unstablest, most chaotic province of English things, is the one public man among us who has dared to take his stand on what he understood to be the truth, and expect victory from that: he puts to shame our Bishops and Archbishops.”
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II Carlyle, Thomas 1883
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I have often said, looking at him as a manager of great London theatres, "This Man, presiding over the unstablest, most chaotic province of English things, is the one public man among us who has dared to take his stand on what he understood to be _the truth, _ and expect victory from that: he puts to shame our Bishops and Archbishops."
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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With this the instability is bigger, taking astro in these conditions to develop great eccentricities, great orbital and rotational inclinations, and some even with retrograde movements, that are moved away and lesser and unstablest.
EveryJoe 2009
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