transitorily

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The young of our surviving elephants only exhibit transitorily the family tendency.

From More Science From an Easy Chair by Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir

Man has not been able to maintain this position: for the ideal is realized but transitorily.

From The Life of Jesus by Renan, Ernest

On ignition it becomes lemon yellow, and transitorily darker, even brown, and passes into the sexquioxide.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. by Various

Thus the young lion is spotted, during his first year, with dark spots on its lighter ground, and transitorily shows the livery that is most common in the genus.

From The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 by Various

Wasn't it my own phrase to speak of "that greater mind in men, in which we are but moments and transitorily lit cells?"

From The New Machiavelli by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)