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Do not be concerned about mild, transitory symptoms.transitory = lasting a short time
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The goal of this emergency organization is to keep a transitory problem from turning into one that is permanent.
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So why should the transitory customs of one local culture affect the decision so much? (source)transitory = temporary (lasting a short time)
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To small children, though, the idea of praising God in a tent was confusing.... Would the gentle Jesus care to enter into that transitory setting? (source)
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this is a kind of beauty even more transitory than most, (source)transitory = short-lived (lasting a short time)
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How should he not know love, he, who has discovered all elements of human existence in their transitoriness, (source)transitoriness = shortness
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His goodness must not be a partial and transitory act, but a constant (source)transitory = temporary (lasting a short time)
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He was one of the few people who was acutely conscious of the transitoriness of life, and how necessary it was to make the most of it. (source)transitoriness = shortnessstandard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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Scientists have always ignored national boundaries, holding themselves above the transitory concerns of politics and even wars.† (source)
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In these English farms, if anywhere, one might see life steadily and see it whole, group in one vision its transitoriness and its eternal youth, connect—connect without bitterness until all men are brothers.† (source)
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The whole world was transitory.† (source)
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each one was a will to die, a passionately painful confession of transitoriness, and yet none of them died, each one only transformed, was always re-born, received evermore a new face, without any time having passed between the one and the other face—and all of these figures and faces rested, flowed, generated themselves, floated along and merged with each other, and they were all constantly covered by something thin, without individuality of its own, but yet existing, like a thin glass or ice, like a transparent skin, a shell or mold or mask of water, and this mask was smiling, and this mask was Siddhartha's smiling face, which he, Govinda, in this very same moment touched with his lips.† (source)
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Instead, they have a bundle of energy, and that bundle of energy is transitory, migrating from one body to another, reincarnating endlessly until it eventually reaches enlightenment.† (source)
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WHAT I BELIEVE, WHAT I VALUE MOST, is transitoriness.† (source)
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After Howard, two more, transitory and sweet, followed by one other, longer.† (source)
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But is not transitoriness—the perishableness of life—something very sad?† (source)
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