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Impermanent

adjective
1.
Not permanent; not lasting.  Synonym: temporary.  "Impermanent palm cottages" , "A temperary arrangement" , "Temporary housing"
2.
Existing or enduring for a limited time only.





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"Impermanent" Quotes from Famous Books



... English she assured herself were more refined than the Germans. Even the local doctor at Barnes whose effect upon her mother's perpetual ill-health, upon Eve's nerves and Sarah's mysterious indigestion was so impermanent that the very sound of his name exasperated her, had something about him that she failed entirely to find in this German—something she could respect. She wondered whether the professional classes in Germany were all like this specialist and living ...
— Pointed Roofs - Pilgrimage, Volume 1 • Dorothy Richardson
... dying. As a cataract shows from year to year an invariable shape, though the water composing it is perpetually changing, so the aspect of Nature is nothing more than a flow of matter presenting an impermanent form. The universe, considered as a whole, is unchangeable. Nothing is eternal but space, atoms, force. The forms of Nature that we see are essentially transitory, they must all ...
— History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science • John William Draper
... anything he had for hire at a moment's notice, but very pleasant, gentle, and unobtrusive; a cheat and a liar, but of a kind heart and sympathetic manners. Under his protection Mrs. Vervain set up her impermanent household gods. The apartment was taken only from week to week, and as she freely explained to the padrone hovering about with offers of service, she knew herself too well ever to unpack anything that would not spoil by remaining packed. She made her trunks yield ...
— A Foregone Conclusion • W. D. Howells


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