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
This, perhaps, was of the less moment as his anger was of an unenduring kind, evaporating frequently with more celerity than he could get the angry words out of his mouth.
From Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope
She saw now his success as unenduring, fictitious, his talents besmirched with the vice that was most hateful to her.
From The Long Lane's Turning by Hallie Erminie Rives
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
Impulsiveness.—This trait is closely allied with the last: unenduring emotions are emotions which sway the conduct now this way and now that, without any consistency.
From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Herbert Spencer
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