Meanings
- degreemannerIn a transitory way.
All parts of the experienced world are experienced transitorily. They appear and disappear.
1960, William Leonard Hoerber, A Scientific Foundation of Philosophy, page 763 more examples
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.
1762, Henry Home Kames, Elements of Criticism, published 1819, page 147Most transitorily poor households are substantially better off than chronically poor households.
2001, Neil McCulloch, L[eonard] Alan Winters, Xavier Cirera, Trade Liberalization and Poverty: A Handbook, page 149It is not a permanent space: it transitorily colonizes public urban space, overlapping and somehow replacing it.
2008, Frank Eckardt, Media and urban space: understanding, investigating and approaching mediacity, page 17Synonyms: fleetingly, temporarily, transiently
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbIn a transitory way.
Origin
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