Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lasting for a moment; momentary.
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- adjective obsolete
Momentary ,transient .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In 1792, he brought forward a plan, of which the greatest recommendation was this, that the principle of redemption was interwoven with the debt itself — that the momentany debt was contracted, that debt furnished out of itself the means of re-payment within a limited period.
The Parliamentary Register: Or an Impartial Report of the Debates that Have Occured in the Two ... 1813
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Tour hopes can, he crowned vp'ith no greater reward thc '/i the world cm give; and what is the world hut a. brittle thing fidl of d. ingers, wherein roe travel from Icffer to greater perils? let all her vain, light, and momentany glotjpenfh with herfclfi md let us he corner f ant with more eternal things,
Emblemes 1658
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