a. [UN-1 7 b and 5 b.] That cannot change or be changed; not liable to change; immutable, invariable.
Also, in recent use, ‘not exchangeable.’
c. 1340. Hampole, Psalter, iv. 9. It is tendant in til lastandnes and vnchaungeabile ioy. Ibid. (c. 1340), Pr. Consc., 8232. How God invysible es, And unchaungeable, and endles.
1382. Wyclif, Job xv. 15. Among his seintus noon is vnchaungable.
c. 1430. Life St. Kath., xiii. (1884), 28. For god is vnbodyly inuisible and vnchaungeable.
1434. Misyn, Mending Life, 106. Qwhat is turnyng fro god bot turnynge fro guyde vnchawngabyll to guyde chawngabyll.
1526. Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 271 b. Seynge in spiryt the immutable or vnchaungeable trewth of god.
1587. Golding, De Mornay, iv. (1592), 44. By this terme Vnchangeable we deny him to be lyke the immortall soules, which admit passions.
a. 1610. Healey, Cebes (1636), 152. Shee giueth the true knowledge of profitable things a gift of unchangeable goodnesse and security.
1676. Hale, Contempl., I. 191. An eternal state of unchangeable and perfect happiness shall succeed.
1732. Berkeley, Alciphr., VI. § 31. Although the light of truth be unchangeable.
1774. Goldsm., Nat. Hist., I. xx. 341. They … talk of a friend or a mistress as fixed and unchangeable as the winds.
1817. J. Scott, Paris Revisit. (ed. 4), 71. The latter method will inevitably produce … a more unchangeable fidelity.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xiv. III. 450. The thousands of clergymen, who had so loudly boasted of the unchangeable loyalty of their order.
1867. H. Macmillan, Bible Teach., xvi. 322. About the average age of forty, when the character becomes unchangeable.
absol. 1875. Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), III. 535. For the unchangeable is never older or younger.
