Immutable
[ɪ'mjuːtəb(ə)l] or [ɪ'mjutəbl]
Definition
(adj.) not subject or susceptible to change or variation in form or quality or nature; 'the view of that time was that all species were immutable, created by God' .
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Definition
(a.) Not mutable; not capable or susceptible of change; unchangeable; unalterable.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Unchangeable, invariable, unalterable, undeviating, constant, permanent, stable.
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Definition
adj. unchangeable.—ns. Immutabil′ity Immūt′ableness unchangeableness.—adv. Immūt′ably.
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Examples
- He argues with much force on general grounds that species are not immutable productions. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Darwin had always held that species were created immutable, and that it was impossible for one species to give rise to another. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- But the habit of mind which would turn an instrument of life into an immutable law of its existence--that habit is always with us. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Until recently the great majority of naturalists believed that species were immutable productions, and had been separately created. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- But those who see the absolute and eternal and immutable may be said to know, and not to have opinion only? Plato. The Republic.
- His face was immutable, aristocratic-looking, tinged slightly with grey under the skin; he was young and good-looking. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Rosine was right; these utensils had in them a blank and immutable terror, beyond the mobile wrath of the wearer's own unglazed eyes. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Growth and decay with all living things mark the immutable law of nature, and the inevitable fate of mortality. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- But in sooth, Fate hath ruth, And this dream of youth May change from a dream to immutable truth. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- All these causes render the rules of justice stedfast and immutable; at least, as immutable as human nature. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
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