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  thus passes away the glory of this world.
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  Sic transit gloria mundi

  Latin for “Thus passes away the glory of the world”; worldly things do not last.

sic transit gloria mundi

American  

[seek trahn-sit gloh-ri-ah moon-dee, sik tran-sit glawr-ee-uh muhn-dahy, -dee, glohr-, -zit] / sik ˈtrɑn sɪt ˈgloʊ rɪˌɑ ˈmʊn di, sɪk ˈtræn sɪt ˈglɔr i ə ˈmʌn daɪ, -di, ˈgloʊr-, -zɪt /

Latin.

1. thus passes away the glory of this world.

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sic transit gloria mundi British  

/ ˈsɪk ˈtrænsɪt ˈɡlɔːrɪˌɑː ˈmʊndiː /

1. thus passes the glory of the world

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Sic transit gloria mundi Cultural  

1. Latin for “Thus passes away the glory of the world”; worldly things do not last.

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sic transit gloria mundi Idioms  

1. Nothing on earth is permanent, as in His first three novels were bestsellers and now he can't even find an agent—sic transit gloria mundi. This expression, Latin for “Thus passes the glory of the world,” has been used in English since about 1600, and is familiar enough so that it is sometimes abbreviated to sic transit.

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Ordinary suburban backyards and picket fences run along one side of the path; on the other — sic transit gloria mundi.

From New York Times ● Jul. 19, 2012

Before him a master of ceremonies thrice lit wisps of flax, chanting: "Sancte Pater, sic transit gloria mundi."

From Time Magazine Archive

Could any preacher quote a more striking instance of "sic transit gloria mundi"?

From Here, There and Everywhere by Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton

A colleague intercepted the note en route and appended the phrase, "Sic transit gloria mundi."

From Time Magazine Archive

A fragment of schoolboy Latin came into his head, and, to our astonishment, he murmured, "Sic transit gloria mundi!"

From Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand by William Delisle Hay

Sic transit gloria mundi, as it says in the back of the dictionary.

From The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking by James Branch Cabell

Sic transit gloria mundi, and thus its frivolities flourish for their brief hour, and then decay and are forgotten.

From The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3) by Charles Greville

This ancient house or hall is still in existence, but now entirely converted into a building for farming purposes: "Sic transit gloria mundi."

From Notes and Queries, Number 42, August 17, 1850 by Various