unconstancy

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʌnˈkɒnstənsi/

Noun

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 [and sold by John Williams, London], →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.

References

• “unconstancy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.