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Example sentences for "mutable"

Lexicographically close words:
mustna; musty; muta; mutabile; mutability; mutamur; mutant; mutants; mutantur; mutare
  1. Not dull art Thou as undiscerning Night; But studious only to remove from sight Day's mutable distinctions.

  2. FR] Dread arbitress of mutable respect, New rites ordaining when the old are wrecked, Or cease to please the fickle worshipper, Mother of Love!

  3. But I did not become convinced that species were mutable until, I think, two or three years had elapsed.

  4. There is an absurdity in referring the determination of causes, in the first instance, to judges of permanent standing; in the last, to those of a temporary and mutable constitution.

  5. The internal effects of a mutable policy are still more calamitous.

  6. If, to avoid an accumulation of offices, there was to be a frequent change in the persons who were to compose the council, this would involve the mischiefs of a mutable administration in their full extent.

  7. To trace the mischievous effects of a mutable government would fill a volume.

  8. Such necessary truths cannot be grounded either in the contingent human mind, or in the contingent and mutable actuality of the things of our immediate experience.

  9. But this mutability attaches not to material nature alone, but to all creation; the highest archangel in the highest heaven, as well as every spirit embodied on earth, is a mutable creature.

  10. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right.

  11. Exposed to a mutable ownership through vicissitudes of possession.

  12. He is no longer distracted by its many moods; he loves it the more for them, as a man loves the mutable ways of the woman whose soul he knows.

  13. They may be inherited in this mutable condition during a long series of generations.

  14. Captain Smith replied, that he had no reward in view, but only treated me as a gentleman ought to be treated; he said this is a mutable world, and one gentleman never knows but it may be in his power to help another.

  15. I could not help calling to mind what captain Smith said to me, when I first came on board; "This is a mutable world, and one gentleman never knows but that it may be in his power to help another.

  16. But fortune goes with mutable steps, and thus chance put into his hand what his address had never won.

  17. The mutable in experience must be founded on immutability.

  18. In the same spirit, in his dialogue De libero Arbitrio[412], he dwells on the mutable character of human law.

  19. Thus is it with the Titan Albion and all his race of mythologic men, when for them "Vala supplants Jerusalem," the husk replaces the fruit, the mutable form eclipses the immutable substance.

  20. The frontispiece gives a symbol of man's birth into the fleshly and mutable house of life, powerless and painless as yet, but encircled by the likeness and oppressed by the mystery of material existence.

  21. My sacred compositions may survive and carry my name to posterity; for taste in such things is less mutable than in the opera.

  22. The angry man desires the evil of another, not for its own sake but for the sake of revenge, towards which his appetite turns as to a mutable good.

  23. But in anger there is conversion not to a mutable good, but to a person's evil.

  24. The division between man and God that results from sin is not intended by the sinner: it happens beside his intention as a result of his turning inordinately to a mutable good, and so it is not schism properly so called.

  25. To the sin of transgression there correspond both the pain of loss on account of the aversion from God, and the pain of sense, on account of the inordinate conversion to a mutable good.

  26. Therefore it arises from turning to human power, which is a mutable good, rather than from turning to the power of God, which is an immutable good.

  27. I answer that, Just as sin consists in man contemning God and adhering to mutable things, so the merit of a virtuous act consists in man contemning created goods and adhering to God as his end.

  28. For every sin includes conversion to a mutable good, together with aversion from the immutable good, as Augustine states (De Lib.

  29. But despair includes no conversion to a mutable good.

  30. I answer that, Two things are to be observed in sin, conversion to a mutable good, and this is the material part of sin; and aversion from the immutable good, and this gives sin its formal aspect and complement.

  31. Now every mortal sin takes its principal malice and gravity from the fact of its turning away from God, for if it were possible to turn to a mutable good, even inordinately, without turning away from God, it would not be a mortal sin.

  32. Further, in every sin there is conversion to some mutable good.

  33. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit shall be cut down, and shall be cast into the fire"; and this on account of the root from which it grows, although it does not necessarily imply conversion to any mutable good.

  34. Further, sin arises from the inordinate conversion to a mutable good.

  35. Lucy had just entered her sixteenth year; her features were extremely delicate; she had a little outgrown her strength, as might be judged by her gait and mutable complexion.

  36. How mutable the world appears Where nothing lasts, but pain and tears!

  37. The Inflammable is immutable in water, but mutable in air and fire.

  38. Earth is thus the body, which is mutable neither in water, air, nor fire.

  39. The Ore is not soluble in water, nor mutable in air; on the contrary, it is fusible, oxydizable, or reducible in fire.

  40. It is an idea merely--an idea powerful and persistent, but still mutable and mortal.

  41. In this sense, and as we may say subjectively, the Natural Law is mutable, very mutable indeed.

  42. Still the contemplative eye Discerns under mutable sand drifts Stable foundations of stone, Marble and natural rock.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mutable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adaptable; adjustable; ambivalent; brittle; capricious; changeable; checkered; choppy; corruptible; deciduous; deviating; different; disorderly; divergent; diversified; dubious; dying; ephemeral; erratic; evanescent; fading; fickle; fleeting; flexible; flitting; fluid; flying; fragile; frail; fugacious; fugitive; impermanent; impetuous; impulsive; inconsistent; inconstant; indecisive; insubstantial; irregular; irresolute; jagged; jerky; kaleidoscopic; malleable; mercurial; metamorphic; mobile; modifiable; momentary; mortal; motley; movable; mutable; passing; perishable; plastic; pluralistic; protean; ragged; resilient; rough; rubbery; spasmodic; sporadic; supple; temporal; temporary; transient; transitive; transitory; uncertain; undecided; undetermined; unequal; uneven; unorthodox; unresolved; unsettled; unstable; unsteady; unsystematic; variable; variegated; various; varying; volatile; wavering