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Definition of Ephemeralities
1. ephemerality [n] - See also: ephemerality
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ephemeralities
Literary usage of Ephemeralities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1909)
"Where there is any weakness in the character, the temptation to rest content with
the ephemeralities of journalism is deadly. ..."
2. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1900) by George Saintsbury (1906)
"On the real " great questions" Tennyson was not loth to speak, and spoke gravely
enough; even to the ephemeralities, as we have said, he paid rather too ..."
3. French Essays and Profiles by Stuart Oliver Henry (1921)
"... and its enthusiastic ephemeralities, he opposed the love and cult of the
insensibly eternal and distant—of the inanimate things of beauty which give ..."
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