provisionary
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The preamble of this law, standing as it now stands, has the lie direct given to it by the provisionary part of the act: if that can be called provisionary which makes no provision.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
Mrs Fanshawe hitched herself into her corner, planted her feet more firmly on the provisionary footstool, and folded her hands on her knee.
From The Independence of Claire by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
My mother it appears declines rapidly: her death is even feared, and should it happen, I cannot pretend to insist on the obstacles which her maternal cares and provisionary fears have raised.
From Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft
"Fortunately for you, madame, you have never been driven to the necessity of admitting the utility of such provisionary measures."
From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 by Eugène Sue
She had already taken that provisionary leap into a mythical future which is one of the perfunctory attitudes of maidenhood.
From The Wayfarers by Mary Stewart Doubleday Cutting
