inconstancy

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[ US /ˌɪnˈkɑnstənsi/ ]
[ UK /ɪnkˈɒnstənsi/ ]
NOUN
  1. the quality of being changeable and variable
  2. unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous
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How To Use inconstancy In A Sentence

  • Only Ebie Fairrish, struck to the heart by the inconstancy of Jess, removed at the November term back again to the "laigh end" of the parish, and there plunged madly into flirtations with several of his old sweethearts. The Lilac Sunbonnet
  • Tartarus; it was not so delicious at first, as now it is bitter and harsh; a cankered soul macerated with cares and discontents, taedium vitae, impatience, agony, inconstancy, irresolution, precipitate them unto unspeakable miseries. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Such people deserve no pity; for, after all, inconstancy is unpardonable. The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre
  • ``Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one: / Inconstancy hath unnaturally begot / A constant habit. THE CALLIGRAPHER
  • After Diomedes leaves, Cressida speaks in dismay of her own inconstancy, while, unseen, Thersites comments cynically on the whole interview.
  • ``Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one: / Inconstancy hath unnaturally begot / A constant habit. THE CALLIGRAPHER
  • Although Leapor accepts that many women are guilty of inconstancy and immoderate behaviour, she none the less holds out the prospect of transformation.
  • Inconstancy of life is the constant theme in Chinese and Japanese literary classics.
  • More than most places, its history is marked by a regularity of tyranny and violence - no doubt the legacy of successive invasions and a corresponding inconstancy of rulers.
  • It must be a confession of his inconstancy and confirm their separation forever.
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