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Definition of Transitorily
1. Adverb. For a very brief time.
Definition of Transitorily
1. adv. In a transitory manner; with brief continuance.
Definition of Transitorily
1. Adverb. (context: degree manner) In a transitory way. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Transitorily
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Transitorily
Literary usage of Transitorily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Parsons Lathrop, Julian Hawthorne (1883)
"A good many persons, of the poor classes, and of those apparently well to do,
stopped transitorily to look at these books. On the other side of the street ..."
2. Passages from the French and Italian Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1899)
"A good many persons, of the poor classes, and of those apparently well to do,
stopped transitorily to look at these books. On the other side of the street ..."
3. The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1888)
"A good many persons, of the poor classes, and of those apparently well to do,
stopped transitorily to look at these books. On the other side of the street ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1864)
"... pass upon human life is permanently acceptable to mankind ; the criticism
which the men of ability pass upon, human life is transitorily acceptable. ..."
5. Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1853)
"There is only one animal form which is represented, permanently or transitorily,
throughout the animal kingdom : it is that of the ..."
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