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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
immutable
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an immutable fact
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Conservatives dug in and insisted that dogmas were immutable and hierarchies indispensable.
▪ I do not believe that this perceptual process is either universal or immutable, but it is ubiquitous and extremely potent.
▪ In other words the rules of precedence and other aspects of diplomatic ceremonial were not immutable.
▪ Maybe this once, the world will display itself as immutable.
▪ That rule was immutable, and woe betide anyone who disregarded it.
▪ The principles of credit rating are immutable, they insist; their credit opinions are never swayed by the judgments of others.
▪ There was no immutable tendency for it to settle at the particular level where all willing workers had a chance for employment.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Immutable

Immutable \Im*mu"ta*ble\,

  1. [L. immutabilis; pref. im- not + mutabilis mutable. See Mutable.] Not mutable; not capable or susceptible of change; unchangeable; unalterable.

    That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation.
    --He

  2. vi. 18.

    Immutable, immortal, infinite, Eternal King.
    --Milton. -- Im*mu"ta*ble*ness, n. -- Im*mu"ta*bly, adv.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
immutable

early 15c., from Old French immutable and directly from Latin immutabilis "unchangeable," from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + mutabilis "changeable," from mutare "to change" (see mutable). Related: Immutably.

Wiktionary
immutable

a. 1 Unable to be changed without exception. 2 (context programming of a variable English) Not able to be altered in the memory after its value is set initially, such as a constant. n. Something that cannot be changed.

WordNet
immutable

adj. not subject or susceptible to change or variation in form or quality or nature; "the view of that time was that all species were immutable, created by God" [syn: changeless] [ant: mutable]

Usage examples of "immutable".

These Judaizing Christians seem to have argued with some degree of plausibility from the divine origin of the Mosaic law, and from the immutable perfections of its great Author.

While SRT was willing to give up the Lorentzian assumptions of space and time being immutably what they had always been, the proponents of an LET interpretation point out that SRT itself carries an assumption that would seem far closer to home and more readily open to question, namely that the measuring standards themselves are immutable.

She had found a cure for her myopia-a sure omen that nearsightedness was not an immutable sentence.

I think sometimes how many of us there are, so many pawns, so many Immutables, all of us living on this land, and we have no Game.

Absolute Reason, above each two, holding the balance, is, according to the Kabalah, the foundation of all religions and all sciences, the primary and immutable idea of things.

Foundation of all religions and sciences, the primary and immutable idea of things is--, 769-l.

But all natural phenomena depend on a single and immutable law, represented by the philosophal stone and its symbolic form, which is that of a cube.

The North Star, always fixed and immutable for us, represents the point in the centre of the circle, or the Deity in the centre of the Universe.

But the other gave less heed to Rosinante, fixed the filmy lustre of his eyes on me, his wonderful young face veiled with that wisdom which is in all children, and of an immutable gravity.

Accordingly, in so far as mortal sin turns away from the immutable Good, it induces a debt of eternal punishment, so that whosoever sins against the eternal Good should be punished eternally.

Millions and millions of suns are ranged around us, all attended by innumerable worlds, yet calm, regular, and harmonious, all keeping the paths of immutable necessity.

The good woman, who was twenty years older than I, and who, believing in an immutable destiny, took pleasure in turning the leaves of the great book of fate, told me that she was certain of restoring to me all I left with her, before the end of the following year, at the latest.

Newton declared space and time to be eternal and immutable ingredients in the makeup of the cosmos, pristine structures lying beyond the bounds of question and explanation.

But after very long intervals of time and after great geographical changes, permitting much inter-migration, the feebler will yield to the more dominant forms, and there will be nothing immutable in the laws of past and present distribution.

These are serious negotiations and the terms, to which you have already agreed, are immutable.