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
Thus the young lion is spotted, during his first year, with dark spots on its lighter ground, and transitorily shows the livery that is most common in the genus.
From The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 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
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
Something of the old spirit occasionally flashed forth, but fitfully and transitorily only, like the flicker of a lamp before its extinction.
From The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion by John Charles Dent
