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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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14 words match “MUTABILITY”

MUTABILITY n.
essed that the heavens and the frame of the world are corporeal, and therefore subject to mutability. Stillingfleet.
COMMUTABILITY n.
The quality of being commutable.
IMMUTABILITY n.
The state or quality of being immutable; immutableness. Heb. vi. 17.
INCOMMUTABILITY n.
The quality or state of being incommutable.
INTRANSMUTABILITY n.
The quality of being intransmutable.
TRANSMUTABILITY n.
The quality of being transmutable.
CHANGEABLENESS n.
The quality of being changeable; fickleness; inconstancy; mutability.
DECENT a.
comfortable or satisfying; as, a decent fortune; a decent person. A decent retreat in the mutability of human affairs. Burke. -- De"cent*ly, adv. -- De"cent*ness, n.
INCONSISTENCY n.
Want of stability or uniformity; unsteadiness; changeableness; variableness. Mutability of temper, and inconsistency with ourselves, is the greatest weakness of human nature. Addison.
INCONSTANCY n.
The quality or state of being inconstant; want of constancy; mutability; fickleness; variableness. For unto knight there was no greater shame, Than lightness and inconstancie in love. Spenser.
INSTABILITY n.
Lack of determination of fixedness; inconstancy; fickleness; mutability; changeableness; as, instability of character, temper, custom, etc. Addison.
MERCURY n.
Sprightly or mercurial quality; spirit; mutability; fickleness. [Obs.] He was so full of mercury that he could not fix long in any friendship, or to any design. Bp. Burnet.
MIND v.
To put in mind; to remind. [Archaic] M. Arnold. He minded them of the mutability of all earthly things. Fuller. I do thee wrong to mind thee of it. Shak. Never mind, do not regard it; it is of no consequence; no matter.
MONSTROSITY n.
ich is monstrous; a monster. South. A monstrosity never changes the name or affects the immutability of a species. Adanson (Trans. ).