2. Adverb. Regarding ephemera. ¹
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Definition of Ephemerally
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ephemerally
Literary usage of Ephemerally
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Contemporary Review (1868)
"... the greatest political economist (Ricardo), the most ephemerally celebrated
and the really greatest poets (Byron and Shelley), and the most successful ..."
2. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... and who dwelt rather low down in the Ephemeral, and ephemerally fought and
scrambled there! Diderot the great has contracted into Diderot the easily ..."
3. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The goal towards which these tendencies verged was monotheism; and though this
goal was only once, and then quite ephemerally, reached, ..."
4. The Rise of English Literary Prose by George Philip Krapp (1915)
"... it might well have seemed to a contemporary that Wiclif belonged to that class
of ephemerally troublesome spirits, the Wat Tylers, the John Balls of the ..."
5. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences by California Academy of Sciences (1920)
"... based on a chance light-colored variant such as is known to crop out ephemerally
now and then in the race history of many diverse groups of organisms. ..."
6. Principles of Political Economy, with Some of Their Applications to Social by John Stuart Mill (1896)
"... the greatest political economist (Ricardo), the most ephemerally celebrated,
and the really greatest poets (Byron and Shelley), and the most successful ..."
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