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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  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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