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Impermanent

adjective

Not permanent; not lasting. Synonym: temporary. "Impermanent palm cottages" , "A temperary arrangement" , "Temporary housing"

Existing or enduring for a limited time only.

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"Impermanent" Quotes from Famous Books

... reserve marriage for the unions sanctioned by legal forms. Or take the union of two people, each of whom has prior matrimonial engagements. Such a union may, as the records of the divorce court show, be anything but impermanent; but it does not make for clearness to call such an union marriage. Let us take a third example—a New Hebridean girl purchased, or in Upa stolen, for the use of the young men, who, of course, reside in their club-house. If any of the bachelors there resident chooses to recognise her children, ...

— Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia • Northcote W. Thomas

... none of the fictitious realities of the classics, none of the grotesquenesses of chivalry, none of the allegory of the middle ages; there is no sectarianism either of politics or religion, no miser, no witch,—no common witch,—no astrology—nothing impermanent of however long duration; but he stands like the yew tree in Lorton vale, which has known so many ages that it belongs to none in particular; a living image of endless self-reproduction, like the immortal tree ...

— Literary Remains (1) • Coleridge

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