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Definition of Impermanently
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Impermanently
Literary usage of Impermanently
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mars as the Abode of Life by Percival Lowell (1908)
"... what scant moisture the desert-born equatorial winds might possess would be
deposited northward as they cooled, in part impermanently in the forties, ..."
2. The Great Harmonia: Being a Philosophical Revelation of the Natural by Andrew Jackson Davis (1884)
"Considered physiologically, we behold our youth, too frequently urged by ambitious
parents, prematurely ripened and impermanently endowed; with apparent ..."
3. The Great Harmonia: Being a Philosophical Revelation of the Natural by Andrew Jackson Davis (1884)
"Considered physiologically, we behold our youth, too frequently urged by ambitious
parents, prematurely ripened and impermanently endowed; with apparent ..."
4. Outlines of the Earth's History: A Popular Study in Physiography by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (1898)
"As these accidents write their history upon the ground alone, and in a way
impermanently, it is difficult to trace the ice times of ancient geological ..."
5. Photo-chemistry by Samuel Edward Sheppard (1914)
"... silver chloride exposed in a moist state on paper to a prismatic spectrum
reproduced the spectral colours, though very imperfectly and impermanently. ..."
6. In Old Ceylon by Reginald John Farrer (1908)
"... no less impermanently, than ever corselet of emerald or ruby upon the colossal
Buddhas that now sit dark and naked and broken in the jungle. ..."
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