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adv. - For a very brief time.

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  • Thus the young lion is spotted, during his first year, with dark spots on its lighter ground, and transitorily shows the livery that is most common in the genus.
  • I write down that realization of disorder and suffocation here and now as though I had thought it, but indeed then I only felt it, felt it transitorily as I looked back,...
  • For it is not probable that they writ seriously of dialectics, and only transitorily and in sport of the beginning, end, gods, and justice, in which you affirm their...
  • However, given this measure of introspection, a few of the more metaphysical among us as we began this day transitorily viewed a world without days off per se as if...
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