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transiency|ˈtrɑːnsɪənsɪ, ˈtræns-, -nz-; ˈtrɑːnʃənsɪ, ˈtrænʃ-, -nʒ-|
Also (in sense 2 of transient a.) transeuncy.
[f. as prec.: see -ency.]
1. The quality or condition of being transient; brevity of existence; transitoriness.
1652Gaule Magastrom. 96 How is it possible there should either be any..observation on the artists and art, in a transiency so imperceptible? 1805W. Taylor in Robberds Mem. (1843) II. 98 A more eager popularity, like that of the ‘Minstrel's Lay’, would be symptomatic of transiency. 1812Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1836) I. 381 From their minuteness and transiency not calculated to stiffen or inflate the individual. 1831Blackw. Mag. XXIX. 522 They try to perpetuate the transiency of emotions. 1905F. Young Sands of Pleasure i. v, Vaguely conscious of the transiency and instability of material life. 1942Mind LI. 137 Spinoza's central causal theory refers to the world of adequate knowledge as it is directed to entia in se, and its application to transeuncy must be governed by derivation therefrom.
2. A transient thing or being. rare.
1866Carlyle Edw. Irving 318 Poor sickly transiencies that we are, coveting we know not what! 1881Palgrave Vis. Eng. 200 On the trivialest transiencies fix'd, or plucking for fruit Dead-sea Apples and ashes of sin, more brute than the brute. |
