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immutable
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    A philosopher, as we have seen, tries to grasp something that is eternal and immutable.  (source)
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    Vellya Paapen climbed up the kitchen steps and offered her his mortgaged eye. He held it out in the palm of his hand. He said he didn't deserve it and wanted her to have it back. His left eyelid drooped over his empty socket in an immutable, monstrous wink.  (source)
    immutable = unchangeable
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    Mountaineering, she understood, was an essential expression of some odd immutable aspect of my personality that I could no sooner alter than change the color of my eyes.  (source)
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    Destiny was too potent, and her immutable laws had decreed my utter and terrible destruction.  (source)
    immutable = unchangeable
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    Carrie had been going to school with some of them since the first grade, and this had been building since that time, building slowly and immutably, in accordance with all the laws that govern human nature,  (source)
    immutably = in a manner that is unchangeable
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    In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign faces, the changing immensity of life, glide past, veiled not by a sense of mystery but by a slightly disdainful ignorance; for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence and as inscrutable as Destiny.  (source)
    immutability = quality of being unchangeable
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    Still, for all this immutableness, was there some lack of common consistency about worthy Captain Peleg.  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    My friend would then turn to me, quiet and pale, and would say, 'No, sir; that is impossible: I cannot do it, because it is wrong;' and would become immutable as a fixed star.  (source)
    immutable = unchangeable
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    He was firm and determined and went blindly and obstinately for his object, if once he had been brought by any reasons (and they were often very illogical ones) to believe that it was immutably right.  (source)
    immutably = in a manner that is unchangeable
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    The general characteristics of all theocratic architecture are immutability, horror of progress, the preservation of traditional lines, the...  (source)
    immutability = the quality of being unchangeable
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    Several people began to object, but Bellagrog brushed the protests aside, citing Hag Law as though it were a spell, an immutable custom beyond all question or resistance.  (source)
    immutable = unchangeable
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    My task was a very hard one; but, as I was absolutely resolved — as my cousins saw at length that my mind was really and immutably fixed on making a just division of the property — as they must in their own hearts have felt the equity of the intention; and must, besides, have been innately conscious that in my place they would have done precisely what I wished to do — they yielded at length so far as to consent to put the affair to arbitration.  (source)
    immutably = in a manner that is unchangeable
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    Already in her posture and in her steady pedal strokes there were signs of a certain immutability.†  (source)
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