Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as transiliency.
Wiktionary
- n. something transilient
- n. a leap across something, or from one thing to another
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. rare A leap across or from one thing to another.
Etymologies
- Latin transiliens, present participle of transilire to leap across or over. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“When he posted his letter at a quarter to eight, the cock-robin, who had been brooding over his late transilience, was greatly relieved.”
“The most conspicuous thing in his character is its transilience.”
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