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Impermanency   Listen
noun
Impermanency, Impermanence  n.  Lack of permanence.





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"Impermanency" Quotes from Famous Books



... life was understood at Milrose, would have made to Strether's imagination an element in which Waymarsh could have floated easily had he only consented to float. Alas nothing so little resembled floating as the rigour with which, on the edge of his bed, he hugged his posture of prolonged impermanence. It suggested to his comrade something that always, when kept up, worried him—a person established in a railway-coach with a forward inclination. It represented the angle at which poor Waymarsh was to sit through ...
— The Ambassadors • Henry James
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... monarch; and the never-to-be-altered costume lasted less than two years, to the great relief of the courtiers, especially of those who had risked betting with the king himself on its speedy disappearance. Expressing nothing but a caprice, it had the futility and the impermanence of ...
— Americans and Others • Agnes Repplier
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Words linked to "Impermanency" :   duration, length, transiency, transience, impermanent, mortality, temporariness, transitoriness


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