mutable

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

From Middle English mutable, from Old French mutable, from Latin mutabilis (“liable to change”). By surface analysis, muta- + -able.

Is justice therefore various or mutable? — The Confessions of St. Augustine, of Hippo, Saint Augustine
“although my mettall were most mutable” to metal. — The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, Philip Sidney
Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. — The Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce

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