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Etymology
Etymology tree English transitory Middle English -ly English -ly English transitorily From transitory + -ly.
Meanings
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(qualifier:degree) In 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 76:Most 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 149: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 147:It 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 17: