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Constancy   /kˈɑnstənsi/   Listen
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Constancy  n.  
1.
The state or quality of being constant or steadfast; freedom from change; stability; fixedness; immutability; as, the constancy of God in his nature and attributes.
2.
Fixedness or firmness of mind; persevering resolution; especially, firmness of mind under sufferings, steadiness in attachments, or perseverance in enterprise; stability; fidelity. "A fellow of plain uncoined constancy." "Constancy and contempt of danger."
Synonyms: Fixedness; stability; firmness; steadiness; permanence; steadfastness; resolution. See Firmness.






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"Constancy" Quotes from Famous Books



... his feet, he dared not. His bounding heart half-choked him with pleasant pain. All be had not said,—all he had meant to say to Dorcas, of his well-laid plans, his good-luck, his hopes,—all he had meant to entreat of her constancy, for in the infrequent communications between the two countries there was no hope of a correspondence,—all he had meant to say to her of his fervent love, of his anguish at separation, of the joy of ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XI., February, 1863, No. LXIV. • Various

... other modern people offer to the meditation, and, we must say, to the admiration of the Christian reader, a more interesting spectacle? The only European nation which can almost compete with the constancy and never-dying energy of Ireland is the Spanish in its struggle of ...
— Irish Race in the Past and the Present • Aug. J. Thebaud

... of the mental character of humour did not necessarily imply any knowledge as to the authority, instability, or constancy of the feeling—that could only be acquired by philosophical investigation. Nor have we yet so far ascertained its character as to be able to form humorous fancies upon any fixed principle. We are guided by ...
— History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) - With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour • Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange

... than of loving; and that all the Caras and the Fannys, with whom he holds dalliance in these pages, have had each a long series of preceding lovers, as highly favoured as their present poetical paramour: that they meet without any purpose of constancy, and do not think it necessary to grace their connexion with any professions of esteem or permanent attachment. The greater part of the book is filled with serious and elaborate description of the ecstasies ...
— Famous Reviews • Editor: R. Brimley Johnson

... the subclavian artery, at B, Plate 8, with the common carotid artery, at A, Plate 7, I believe that the former will be found to exhibit, on the whole a greater constancy in respect to the following-mentioned condition—viz., a single main arterial trunk arches over the first rib to pass beneath the middle of the clavicle, while the carotid artery opposite the thyroid piece of the larynx is by no means constantly ...
— Surgical Anatomy • Joseph Maclise


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