transitory
adjective
not lasting, enduring, permanent, or eternal.
transitorily
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a word derived from
transitory.
Example Sentences
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The subject-matter is only transitorily within the State and has no permanent habitat therein.
From The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 by Edward Samuel Corwin
There is no slavery so abhorrent as that of the menial who has no thought beyond the narrow sphere of his servitude, and the little pleasure which his light heart may transitorily enjoy.
From The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth by Timothy Templeton
On ignition it becomes lemon yellow, and transitorily darker, even brown, and passes into the sexquioxide.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. by Various
I make account to be in London, transitorily, about the end of August.
From Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by John Donne
Wasn't it my own phrase to speak of "that greater mind in men, in which we are but moments and transitorily lit cells?"
From The New Machiavelli by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
