unenduring
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There are many ways of exciting phosphorescence and fluorescence, the latter being merely an unenduring phosphorescence, which ceases when the exciting energy is cut off.
From Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization by Matthew Luckiesh
Stone houses should be made of stone, and if made of wood or iron or plaster, they are nothing but shams, unenduring and unsatisfactory.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 by Various
Now justice and injustice are about certain actions and passions, which are unenduring and transitory.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Saint Thomas Aquinas
But pleasure with the poor is always unenduring.
From Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist by Samuel Smiles
She was a dark, unenduring little flower—yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her passive acceptance of all things.
From The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald
