transitorily

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A corresponding germinal condition, the two-layered gastrula, occurs transitorily in the embryological history of all the other Metazoa, from the lowest Cnidaria and Vermes up to man.

From Monism as Connecting Religion and Science A Man of Science by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August

There is no merit in mastering the feelings which only lightly and transitorily skim over the surface of the soul.

From Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller by Schiller, Friedrich

Man has not been able to maintain this position: for the ideal is realized but transitorily.

From The Life of Jesus by Renan, Ernest

Isbister looked at him and wondered transitorily if some complex Providence had indeed brought them together that afternoon.

From When the Sleeper Wakes by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

I make account to be in London, transitorily, about the end of August.

From Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by Donne, John