All 3 Uses
constant
in
Romeo and Juliet
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- True, I talk of dreams,
Which are the children of an idle brain,
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy,
Which is as thin of substance as the air
And more inconstant than the wind, who woos
Even now the frozen bosom of the north
And, being angered, puffs away from thence,
Turning his side to the dew-dropping south.†p. 49.2inconstant = changing or not reliablestandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inconstant means not and reverses the meaning of constant. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure. - O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,
That monthly changes in her circled orb,
Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.p. 77.3 * - And this shall free thee from this present shame,
If no inconstant toy nor womanish fear
Abate thy valor in the acting it.†p. 185.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(constant) unchanging, continuous, or happening repeatedly
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)