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Definition of Transiencies
1. transiency [n] - See also: transiency
Lexicographical Neighbors of Transiencies
Literary usage of Transiencies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. As You Like it by William Shakespeare (1908)
"For even so it is with the permanences of our intellectual and imaginative being
that he deals, and not with any transiencies of popular or fashionable ..."
2. The Teaching of English in the Elementary and the Secondary School by Percival Chubb (1902)
"... adventure — make appeal to the sensitive nature, it becomes a matter of chief
moment whether what are often mere transiencies of impulse and liking, ..."
3. Essays, Reviews, and Addresses by James Martineau (1891)
"... the law of Heracleitus, and that what we call external phenomena are but the
product of a relation between two transiencies, without any constant term. ..."
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