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Synonyms for transient

Grammar : Adj
Spell : tran-shuhnt, -zhuhnt, -zee-uhnt
Phonetic Transcription : ˈtræn ʃənt, -ʒənt, -zi ənt

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Définition of transient

Origin :
  • c.1600, from Latin transiens (accusative transientem) "passing over or away," present participle of transire "cross over, pass away," from trans- "across" (see trans-) + ire "to go" (see ion). The noun is first attested 1650s; specific sense of "transient guest or boarder" first recorded 1880.
  • adj temporary
Example sentences :
  • Calmness is imperative: to be as motionless as transient beings can.
  • Extract from : « Initiation into Philosophy » by Emile Faguet
  • They got exactly what the transient may expect in any country.
  • Extract from : « Old Man Curry » by Charles E. (Charles Emmett) Van Loan
  • The lines of camp-fires begin to gleam from the transient Bedouin villages.
  • Extract from : « Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land » by Henry Van Dyke
  • "I will not make the most of it, Mr. Eld," the old man said, with a transient smile.
  • Extract from : « Aunt Rachel » by David Christie Murray
  • The emotion of grief is real with them, I believe, but transient.
  • Extract from : « Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled » by Hudson Stuck
  • Even in the Homeric poems, we can see that these ideas are transient.
  • Extract from : « Ancient Law » by Sir Henry James Sumner Maine
  • Paul hung his head in a transient shame, and murmured that he was sorry.
  • Extract from : « Despair's Last Journey » by David Christie Murray
  • They are transient things, I yearn for the Immortal state, Nirvana.
  • Extract from : « The Buddha » by Paul Carus
  • Inspectors then understand that one is to be but a transient guest.
  • Extract from : « The Lure of the Mask » by Harold MacGrath
  • It had the transient quality of a dream in which we were but masqueraders.
  • Extract from : « A Daughter of the Middle Border » by Hamlin Garland

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