inconstancy
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“If I speak diversely of myself, it is because I look diversely upon myself,” he writes, in “On the Inconstancy of Our Actions.”
From The New Yorker • Jan. 8, 2017
Inconstancy and oddity.—To live only by work, and to rule over the most powerful State in the world, are very opposite things.
From Pascal's Pensées by Pascal, Blaise
Oh, this false-souled Man—wou'd I had leisure To be reveng'd for this Inconstancy!
From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II by Summers, Montague
Once upon a time there lived a young king whose name was Souci, and he had been brought up, ever since he was a baby, by the fairy Inconstancy.
From The Pink Fairy Book by Lang, Andrew
Inconstancy of improved races 770 Larger variability in the case of propagation by seed, progression and regression after a single selection, and after repeated selections.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de
Vocabulary lists containing inconstancy
Selection Vocabulary 4, Unit 2
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Copernicus: The Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies
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