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Constant   /kˈɑnstənt/   Listen
Constant

adjective
1.
Unvarying in nature.  Synonyms: changeless, invariant, unvarying.  "Principles of unvarying validity"
2.
Steadfast in purpose or devotion or affection.  "A constant lover" , "Constant as the northern star"  Antonym: inconstant.
3.
Uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing.  Synonyms: ceaseless, incessant, never-ending, perpetual, unceasing, unremitting.  "In constant pain" , "Night and day we live with the incessant noise of the city" , "The never-ending search for happiness" , "The perpetual struggle to maintain standards in a democracy" , "Man's unceasing warfare with drought and isolation" , "Unremitting demands of hunger"
noun
1.
A quantity that does not vary.  Synonyms: constant quantity, invariable.
2.
A number representing a quantity assumed to have a fixed value in a specified mathematical context.



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"Constant" Quotes from Famous Books



... "No; Constant was away then, taking a letter to the Empress Josephine. Instead of him there were always a couple of orderlies—and that was all, excepting, of course, the generals and marshals whom Napoleon always took ...
— The Idiot • (AKA Feodor Dostoevsky) Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... queenly power of women should be, until we are agreed what their ordinary power should be. We cannot consider how education may fit them for any widely extending duty, until we are agreed what is their true constant duty. And there never was a time when wilder words were spoken, or more vain imagination permitted, respecting this question—quite vital to all social happiness. The relations of the womanly to the manly nature, their different capacities ...
— Sesame and Lilies • John Ruskin
... Bernard Shaw overboard the same day, it looked like we'd got everything all straightened out. Why not? Mr. Robert seems to have decided that his lady-love wa'n't such a confirmed highbrow as he'd suspected, and he was doin' the steady comp'ny act constant and enthusiastic, just the way he does everything he tackles, from yacht racin' to puttin' a crimp in an independent. In fact, he wa'n't ...
— Torchy, Private Sec. • Sewell Ford
... amount of good which Mr. Wilson did, by his constant, unwearied superintendence, that I cannot help feeling sorry that, in his old age and declining health, the errors which he was believed to have committed, should have been brought up against him in a form which received ...
— The Life of Charlotte Bronte - Volume 1 • Elizabeth Gaskell
... Scale. When we talk, the pitch of the voice changes constantly and adds variety and beauty to conversation; a speaker whose tone, or pitch, remains too constant is monotonous and dull, no matter how ...
— General Science • Bertha M. Clark


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