momentaneous

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"You very rarely see a man dead with any other look on his face--you know the other look And he clenched his teeth with a sudden, momentaneous, ghastly distortion.--"Well, you'd never have known this chap was dead.

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  • "You very rarely see a man dead with any other look on his face--you know the other look And he clenched his teeth with a sudden, momentaneous, ghastly distortion.--"Well, you'd never have known this chap was dead. —  Aaron's Rod
  • Ours are pressed by naked will and authority; theirs, by such special grounds of momentaneous reason, as made the practice of the same necessary for a certain time, whether the apostles had enjoined it or not. —  The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)
  • Lightning is a great flame, very bright, extending every way to a great distance, suddenly darting upwards, there ending, so that it is only momentaneous. —  The Shepherd of Banbury's Rules to Judge of the Changes of the Weather, Grounded on Forty Years' Experience
  • The distinction between fulguration and emanation is this: in the latter case the procession is historically defined and complete; in the former case it is momentaneous. —  The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
  • His attention and eager desire for knowledge stimulate new thought in the speaker day by day, hour by hour; and many a German scholar must have felt with Friedrich August Wolf, when he says, -- "I am one who has been long accustomed to the gentle charm which lies in the momentaneous unfolding of thought in the presence of attentive hearers, to that living reaction softly felt by the teacher, whereby a perennial mental harmony is awakened in his soul, which far surpasses the labors in the study, before blank walls and the feelingless paper." —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861
 

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  1. = French momentanée, Old French momentaine (see momentane) = Spanish momentáneo = Portuguese Italian momentaneo, from Late Latin momentaneus, from Latin momentum, a moment: see moment.
 

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