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Ephemera   Listen
noun
Ephemera  n.  
1.
(Med.) A fever of one day's continuance only.
2.
(Zoöl.) A genus of insects including the day flies, or ephemeral flies. See Ephemeral fly, under Ephemeral.





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"Ephemera" Quotes from Famous Books



... but as the month is so far advanced, we are fearful that the communication will be too late for the purposes of that fashionable journal. We have therefore with unparalleled liberality inserted it in PUNCH, and thus conferred an immortality on an ephemera! It is worthy of remark that the writer adopts the style of our foreign fashionable correspondents, who invariably introduce as much English as ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete • Various
... day sees our Master crowned with new thorns and exposed to fresh torture! You know that we do nothing!—We stand beside Him in His second agony as dumb as though we were unconscious of it! You know that we MIGHT speak and will not! You know that we fear the ephemera of temporary governments, policies, and social conventionalities, more than the great, real, and terrible judgment ...
— The Master-Christian • Marie Corelli


Words linked to "Ephemera" :   time


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