How To Use Inconstancy In A Sentence
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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
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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
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Such people deserve no pity; for, after all, inconstancy is unpardonable.
The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre
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``Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one: / Inconstancy hath unnaturally begot / A constant habit.
THE CALLIGRAPHER
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After Diomedes leaves, Cressida speaks in dismay of her own inconstancy, while, unseen, Thersites comments cynically on the whole interview.
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``Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one: / Inconstancy hath unnaturally begot / A constant habit.
THE CALLIGRAPHER
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Although Leapor accepts that many women are guilty of inconstancy and immoderate behaviour, she none the less holds out the prospect of transformation.
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Inconstancy of life is the constant theme in Chinese and Japanese literary classics.
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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.
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It must be a confession of his inconstancy and confirm their separation forever.
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To have backtracked on a finding to which he was signed up would have been crass and would have exposed him to accusations of inconstancy.
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They excel in fickleness, inconstancy, absence of thought and logic and incapacity to reason.
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St. Gertrude was once saying the Divine Office with the other virgins of her monastery, and was striving to pronounce every word attentively, but since she was often distracted through human infirmity, she said mournfully to herself, "And what fruit can be derived from this endeavour, which is combined with so much inconstancy?
Spiritual Works of Louis of Blois
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Moreover, his inconstancy is a proof of his rashness, because he is soon displeased with himself for what he has done.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1
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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light. James Joyce
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A certain school of philosophy -- if we may give that name to the systematic neglect of reason -- has so immersed itself in the contemplation of this sort of inconstancy, which is indeed prevalent enough in the world, that it has mistaken it for a normal and necessary process.
The Life of Reason
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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light. James Joyce
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‘I know the inconstancy of the people of England,’ she observed privately in 1561, ‘how they ever mislike the present government and have their eyes fixed upon that person who is next to succeed.’
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_Saturn_ be content; for the upper light gives occasion thereunto, having generated an unfixt Body of _Saturn_, penetrated with open pores, that the Air can pass through this _Saturnine_ Body, that the Air can keep it aloft, but the fire can quickly assault it, because the body is not compact by reason of its unfixedness, so that it must decay, which must be in all points observed by him that will attain to the search of it; for there is a great difference between the fix'd and unfix'd bodies, and of the causes of their Constancy and Inconstancy.
Of Natural and Supernatural Things Also of the first Tincture, Root, and Spirit of Metals and Minerals, how the same are Conceived, Generated, Brought forth, Changed, and Augmented.
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Hatred of the Count, mortified self - love, and the resolution to vanquish what he termed the whim of a peevish beauty, would inevitably have precipitated her into difficulties most disastrous, if happily the inconstancy of his nature had not in the end relieved her from his persecution.
Rosamund, Countess of Clarenstein ...
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A good way to break down hierarchies - but how free can they stand, given the inconstancy of progressive funding and radical intervention?
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She thinks, indeed, but little of anything except with reference to herself, and what gives her an air, and will give her a character, for inconstancy, that is in fact the mere result of seeking her own gratification alike in meeting or avoiding her connexions.
The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3
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Would you call it inconstancy on their part to seek it wherever it might be found?
The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre
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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light. James Joyce
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‘I know the inconstancy of the people of England,’ she observed privately in 1561, ‘how they ever mislike the present government and have their eyes fixed upon that person who is next to succeed.’
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It is the end of art to give the superior life of form to that which has it not; and finally, this superior life of form, this magic wand of style, rhythmic as verse and terse as science, by firmly establishing the thing it touches, withdraws it from that law of change, constant in its inconstancy, which is the miserable condition of existence.
Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life
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After much consideration he could derive this behaviour from nothing better than a capriciousness in his friend's temper, from a kind of inconstancy of mind, which makes men grow weary of their friends with no more reason than they often are of their mistresses.
Amelia — Complete
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Hence the inconstancy which is opposed thereto is to be reckoned a daughter of lust.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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The world, as it has been, is and will be constant in inconstancy; for
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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The history of Monmouth would alone suffice to refute the Imputation of inconstancy which is so frequently thrown on the common people.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1
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Hermia was looking at him and wondering at his strange inconstancy.
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Unpredictability and inconstancy in parenting is one very important factor affecting a child negatively.