constancy

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/ˈkɑnstənsi/

noun

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In plain English

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noun
The quality of staying the same and not changing.
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noun
Extra detail
An unchanging quality or characteristic of a person or thing.

Examples

Dripping water wears away a stone not with its strength, but with its constancy.
In Daoism, to not know constancy is a tragedy.

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Extra meaning

The quality of being constant; steadiness or faithfulness in action, affections, purpose, etc.

In context

A little Water cleares vs of this deed. How eaſie is it then? your Conſtancie Hath left you vnattended.
Punctuality is a species of Constancy, a very unfashionable quality in a Lady.
Constancy of character is what is chiefly valued and sought for by naturalists.

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A little Water cleares vs of this deed. How eaſie is it then? your Conſtancie Hath left you vnattended.
c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard,...
Punctuality is a species of Constancy, a very unfashionable quality in a Lady.
1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, IV.iii
And, I do not know that I should be fond of preaching often; now and then, perhaps, once or twice in the spring, after being anxiously expected for half a dozen Sundays together; but not for a constancy; it would not do for a constancy.
1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter III, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 68
Constancy of character is what is chiefly valued and sought for by naturalists.
1871, Charles Darwin, “On the Races of Man”, in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, Part I (On the Descent of Man), page 214
The overall retention rate of 68 per cent indicates a robust constancy of the linguistic features investigated.
2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 124

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Borrowed from Latin cōnstantia.