transience

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For even so it is with the permanences of our intellectual and imaginative being that he deals, and not with any transiencies of popular or fashionable excitement or pursuit.

From Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Hudson, Henry Norman

Dear Freydis, do not love my body nor my manner of speaking, nor any of the ways that I have in the flesh, for all these transiencies are mortgaged to the worms.

From Figures of Earth by Cabell, James Branch

Thy impalpable soul, Atom of consciousness, measuring the Infinite, grasping the whole: Then, on the trivialest transiencies fix’d, or plucking for fruit Dead-sea apples and ashes of sin, more brute than the brute.

From The Visions of England Lyrics on leading men and events in English History by Morley, Henry

And is it not possible that the transiencies of our earthly doings may be sublimed into perpetuity if there is in them the preserving salt of righteousness?

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms by Maclaren, Alexander

If so, they have almost all dissolved—melted away from our memory—as the transiencies in nature do which they coldly pictured.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by Wilson, John