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terms | transitorily |

As a noun terms

is .

As an adverb transitorily is

(degree|manner) in a transitory way.

terms

English

Noun

(head)

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    transitorily

    English

    Adverb

    (head)
  • (degree, manner) In a transitory way.
  • * 1819 , Henry Home Kames, Elements of Criticism , p. 147:
    • With regard to similes of this kind, it will readily occur to the reader that when a resembling subject is once properly introduced in a simile, the mind is transitorily amused with the new object, and is not dissatisfied with the slight interruption.
  • * 1960 , William Leonard Hoerber, A Scientific Foundation of Philosophy , p. 76:
    • All parts of the experienced world are experienced transitorily . They appear and disappear.
  • * 2001 , Neil McCulloch, L. Alan Winters, Xavier Cirera, Trade Liberalization and Poverty: A Handbook , p. 149:
    • Most transitorily poor households are substantially better off than chronically poor households.
  • * 2008 , Frank Eckardt, Media and urban space: understanding, investigating and approaching mediacity , p. 17:
    • It is not a permanent space: it transitorily colonizes public urban space, overlapping and somehow replacing it.
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