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The term “immutable” in literature is frequently employed to evoke the sense of something timeless, unalterable, and universally binding. Writers use it to underscore the steadfast nature of divine decrees or moral truths, as seen when decrees are compared to the unyielding force of Fate ([1]) or divine law ([2]), and similarly applied to the natural order that, despite human intervention, remains constantly true ([3], [4]). At times, it is used to contrast the ephemeral with the eternal, whether in reference to a fixed purpose ([5]) or a personality that never changes ([6]). Authors also invoke the immutable to highlight how human institutions and principles can be anchored in a greater, transcendent order that endures through all trials ([7], [8], [9]), thereby offering a framework of reliability amidst the mutable realities of life.
  1. Victor Lebrun objected; and his decrees were as immutable as those of Fate.
    — from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin
  2. It is the prerogative of God to be immutable; men have their moods and their fluctuations.
    — from Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts by Alexander Maclaren
  3. Until recently the great majority of naturalists believed that species were immutable productions, and had been separately created.
    — from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin
  4. It rejects every claim to the “miraculous,” and accepts nothing outside the uniform and immutable laws of Nature.
    — from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky
  5. Without hurry, without delay, without anxiety, you can but obey the decrees of God and follow the immutable decision of fate.
    — from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova
  6. He is immutable , which means that He has never changed and can never change in any smallest measure.
    — from The Pursuit of God by A. W. Tozer
  7. By a short delay we shall lose nothing, for, resting on the ground of immutable truth and justice, we can not be diverted from our purpose.
    — from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents
  8. Through Reason—the soul's far-darting eye,—and through Reason alone, can we gaze on the Immutable.
    — from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jesse Henry Jones
  9. How absurd in these people, then, to persist in putting faith in “axioms” as immutable bases of Truth!
    — from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition by Edgar Allan Poe

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