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Definition
lasting a short time
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one who stays for only a short time
or:
one who stays for only a short time
- A settled apathy, a gradual wasting away of the person, and frequent although transient affections of a partially cataleptical character, were the unusual diagnosis.3 — The Fall of the House of Usher (38% in)
There are no more uses of "transient" in Selected Tales by Poe.
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