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French
Etymology
After Latin immutābilis (compare immutable) with influence of Old French muable (“subject to change”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
immuable (plural immuables)
- Which hardly ever changes; unchanging
- 2008, 2Mimouche, "Bafouille à Sarko (en réponse au précédent post)", Un collège de France, February 20, 2008,
Belle leçon de remise en cause des principes des lumières et de retour à un ordre établi immuable.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 2008, sanpiero, "Secod mass graves (comment)", February 17, 2008,
Comparer donc une Amérique de 1940 et une de 2008 n’a aucun sens à mon humble avis, à part dans leur cynisme immuable.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Incapable, by its very nature, of changing; immutable, fixed
1838, Frédéric Mercey, Le salon de 1838:On a long-temps disputé du beau. Les uns l’ont vu dans telles ou telles formes, et l’ont proclamé variable; les autres ne l’ont vu que dans une certaine forme déjà trouvée, et l’ont déclaré immuable.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1841, Cicero, Du Destin, translator unknown,
Toute la différence, c’est que l’on voit clairement que le passé est immuable.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (rare) Said of someone that remains true to themselves
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