The changeableness of the weather. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : changeable silk. From Dictionary.com.
Sitting denotes his un-changeableness and his authority. From Wordnik.com. [Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas] Reference
It has been the fashion to regard this changeableness with wistful regret. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Progress] Reference
Lord from a charge of changeableness upon his supposal needs little pains to demonstrate. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed] Reference
A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
This was indeed moral courage, and not weak changeableness or fickleness, because it had a noble object. From Wordnik.com. [Amos Huntingdon] Reference
A treatment less adequate to the variety, fluidity and changeableness of living things could hardly be imagined. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
With the opal, the poet has seized upon its most characteristic quality, its changeableness of hue, where he says in. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare and Precious Stones Treating of the Known References of Precious Stones in Shakespeare's Works, with Comments as to the Origin of His Material, the Knowledge of the Poet Concerning Precious Stones, and References as to Where the Precious Stones of His Time Came from] Reference
"Always allowing, Sir Tilton, for the natural changeableness of man, which would assert itself in spite of a momentary wish.". From Wordnik.com. [A Heart-Song of To-day] Reference
For the changeableness of changeable things, is itself capable of all those forms, into which these changeable things are changed. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions] Reference
And, perhaps, such is the vanity, as well as changeableness, of human estates, in their turns set up for pride of family, and despise the others!. From Wordnik.com. [Pamela] Reference
It is remarkable for versatility of character, jovial disposition, fond of good living and great variety, changeableness, activity, and vivaciousness. From Wordnik.com. [How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony] Reference
I don't see why women are to have a monopoly of changeableness. From Wordnik.com. [Wives and Daughters] Reference
As long as you live you will be subject to changeableness in spite of yourself. From Wordnik.com. [The Imitation of Christ] Reference
There was in him almost as much changeableness as zeal for the cause he embraced. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1] Reference
Landino's note exhibits a curious instance of the changeableness of his countrywomen. From Wordnik.com. [Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete] Reference
This changeableness of mood was probably the true cause of his departure for Thagaste. From Wordnik.com. [Saint Augustin] Reference
+ No less remarkable than the persistency of the mores is their changeableness and variation. From Wordnik.com. [Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals] Reference
But, Alie, did you ever see anything like Bride's changeableness? 'and she gave a little sigh. From Wordnik.com. [The Rectory Children] Reference
Another characteristic of the spoilt woman is the changeableness and excitability of her temper. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868)] Reference
Poor vain man, even in his best estate, is changeableness, and vicissitude itself, altogether vanity!. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning] Reference
But Molly was of too steady a disposition to be much moved by the changeableness of an unreasonable person. From Wordnik.com. [Wives and Daughters] Reference
And what was that like? was there any darkness in him -- meanness, grudging, cruelty, changeableness, deceit?. From Wordnik.com. [Discipline and Other Sermons] Reference
And it is enough that it has not ceased to exist, because of the changeableness and fickleness of the country. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 23 of 55 1629-30 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.] Reference
"This, this," their solemn voices preach to us, "is the changeableness of earth, and the emptiness of its pursuits!". From Wordnik.com. [The Crown of Thorns : a token for the sorrowing] Reference
The Bank directors may be blamed for many things, but they cannot be blamed for the changeableness and excitability of a neocracy. From Wordnik.com. [Lombard Street : a description of the money market] Reference
The romanticist typifies and stereotypes character, the realist recognises the inconsistency and the changeableness of personality. From Wordnik.com. [Escape, and Other Essays] Reference
Oscar knew too who aided him in this changeableness, and had indeed just the same failing herself; and that was his own sister Emma. From Wordnik.com. [Gritli's Children] Reference
Clarence eyed him with the detached interest that was his, and meditated with a certain amusement on the changeableness of college boys. From Wordnik.com. [The Wishing-Ring Man] Reference
Note the evidences of the Duke's restlessness and changeableness; how soon he tires of the music he calls for, of the clown's song (II. iv.). From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies] Reference
And if it was my last breath, I'd call him the best of the lot -- in spite of his tantrums, and his changeableness, and his haughty way sometimes. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange] Reference
And, perhaps, such is the vanity, as well as changeableness, of human estates, in their turns set up for pride of family, and despise the others!. From Wordnik.com. [Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded] Reference
For if innocence cannot attract common civility, what must guilt expect, when novelty has ceased to have its charms, and changeableness had taken place of it?. From Wordnik.com. [Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded] Reference
It is certainly a splendid bird, and in the brilliancy and changeableness of its metallic colours it yields to none of the Asiatic and African feathered tribe. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings in South America] Reference
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