transitorily
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You remember the profound words in our Lord's pregnant parable of the seeds, how one class which transitorily was Christian, had for its characteristic that immediately with joy they received the word.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke by Alexander Maclaren
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 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
The young of our surviving elephants only exhibit transitorily the family tendency.
From More Science From an Easy Chair by Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester
It is so difficult for human beings to live together; nay, it is so difficult for them to associate, however transitorily, and even under the most favourable conditions, without some shadow of mutual offence.
From The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft by George Gissing
Thus the young lion is spotted, during his first year, with dark spots on its lighter ground, and transitorily shows the livery that is most common in the genus.
From The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 by Various
