Unalterable
[ʌn'ɔːlt(ə)rəb(ə)l;ʌn'ɒl-] or [ʌn'ɔltərəbl]
Definition
(adj.) of a sentence; that cannot be changed; 'an unalterable death sentence' .
(adj.) not capable of being changed or altered; 'unalterable resolve'; 'an unalterable ground rule' .
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Unchangeable, immutable, stable.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See CERTAINTY]
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Definition
adj. not capable of alteration or change.—ns. Unalterabil′ity Unal′terableness.—adv. Unal′terably.—adj. Unal′tered not altered or changed.
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Examples
- He sat perfectly still, in an unalterable calm. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I had been the author of unalterable evils; and I lived in daily fear, lest the monster whom I had created should perpetrate some new wickedness. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Love--best love--kindest regards--unalterable affection. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- She had that rare sense which discerns what is unalterable, and submits to it without murmuring. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The marriage is unalterable, my life may be cut short, and I should wish to die in peace. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- This may seem madness to you, yet you also have pride and resolution; do not then wonder that my pride is tameless, my resolution unalterable. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- With the slow unalterable persistency which she had always felt in him, he was making his way through the dense mass of social antagonisms. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I have not time or patience to give half Henry's messages; be satisfied that the spirit of each and every one is unalterable affection. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Whenever beer contains no ferments it is unalterable. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The objects it presents are fixt and unalterable. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- For the most part the people looked bravely into the face of their unalterable doom. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Efficiency in accomplishing ends which have been settled upon as unalterable can coexist with a narrowly opened mind. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- She then bade him, with the eloquence of despair and of unalterable love, a last farewell. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I am a difficult man to convince, but when once convinced my decision is unalterable. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- I loved you--I love you--neither anger nor pride dictates these lines; but a feeling beyond, deeper, and more unalterable than either. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Then I beg to announce to you my unalterable determination to pay no damages whatever,' said Mr. Pickwick, most emphatically. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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