impermanency
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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For impermanency is the nature of things, more particularly in Japan; and the changes and the changers shall also be changed until there is found no place for them—and regret is vanity.
From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series by Hearn, Lafcadio
From Aryan India, through China, came Buddhism, with its vast doctrine of impermanency.
From Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints by Hearn, Lafcadio
He has perhaps been here long enough to learn that—to feel the insecurity, the impermanency.
From A Diary Without Dates by Bagnold, Enid
Continuous arrivals and departures stamp it with peculiar impermanency.
From The Best British Short Stories of 1922 by Aumonier, Stacy
Now it is worth while to inquire if there be not some compensatory value attaching to this impermanency and this smallness in the national life.
From Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints by Hearn, Lafcadio
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