inconstancy

How To Use inconstancy In A Sentence

• All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light. James Joyce 
• Unpredictability and inconstancy in parenting is one very important factor affecting a child negatively.
• Hermia was looking at him and wondering at his strange inconstancy.
• The history of Monmouth would alone suffice to refute the Imputation of inconstancy which is so frequently thrown on the common people. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1
• The world, as it has been, is and will be constant in inconstancy; for Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
• Hence the inconstancy which is opposed thereto is to be reckoned a daughter of lust. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
• After much consideration he could derive this behaviour from nothing better than a capriciousness in his friend's temper, from a kind of inconstancy of mind, which makes men grow weary of their friends with no more reason than they often are of their mistresses. Amelia — Complete
• It is the end of art to give the superior life of form to that which has it not; and finally, this superior life of form, this magic wand of style, rhythmic as verse and terse as science, by firmly establishing the thing it touches, withdraws it from that law of change, constant in its inconstancy, which is the miserable condition of existence. Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life
• ‘I know the inconstancy of the people of England,’ she observed privately in 1561, ‘how they ever mislike the present government and have their eyes fixed upon that person who is next to succeed.’
• All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light. James Joyce