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Definition of Temporaries
1. temporary [n] - See also: temporary
Lexicographical Neighbors of Temporaries
Literary usage of Temporaries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1816)
"temporaries ; but their astonishment most strongly bears CHAP. testimony to the
existence of an enormous though inde- LIX" finite multitude. ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1825)
"temporaries or himself the lesson or the warning of past times. From the august
character of a legislator, the sovereign of the east descends to the more ..."
3. The British Essayists by James Ferguson (1823)
"&c. as prevailing errors, I cannot omit so fair an opportunity of congratulating
my co- temporaries on their having overcome them. Nor can I better conclude ..."
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