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What does protean mean?

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Adjective
  1. Exceedingly variable; readily assuming different shapes or forms.
  2. Of or pertaining to Proteus; characteristic of Proteus.
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George Orwell once described England as a protean creature, stretching ceaselessly into the past, forever changing, forever the same.
It is no wonder the protean character of the enlightener has perplexed mythologers, for he is a perpetual paradox.
His protean ability to assume different roles in his poems is often described as theatrical.
Augustine is a protean thinker, a man whose major works range so widely as to defy the summary and commentary we can present for Athanasius.
Rembrandt was a protean artist, creating a Shakespearean range of subject and mood in his paintings, drawings and etchings.
Becky, as director and actor have conceived her, is a protean character who seems to alter with each costume change.

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