unconstancy

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unconstancy (usually uncountable, plural unconstancies)

  1. Obsolete form of inconstancy.
    • 1639, Thomas Fuller, “Damiata Besieged and Taken; the Christians Unadvisedly Refuse Honourable Conditions”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge , →OCLC, book III, page 154:
      At their landing the moon was almoſt totally eclipſed: whence the Chriſtians conceited (gheſſe the frailneſſe of the building by the unconſtancy of the foundation) that the overthrow of the Mahometanes (whoſe enſigne was the Half-moon) was portended.

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