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transience|ˈtrɑːnsɪəns, ˈtræns-, -nz-; ˈtrɑːnʃəns, ˈtrænʃ-, -nʒ-|
Also (in sense 2) transeunce.
[f. as transient: see -ence.]
1. The action or fact of soon passing away; also, the condition or state of being transient, transiency.
1745Brooke An Anthem iv, Here, from time and transience won, Beauty has her charms resign'd. a1822Shelley Ess. & Lett. (1852) I. 184 A being..whose ‘thoughts wander through eternity’, disclaiming alliance with transience and decay. 1849Tait's Mag. XVI. 8 Shadows..glide away, in transience fleet. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 126 Regarding the transience of pleasure as a proof of its unreality. 1905Westm. Gaz. 22 Apr. 12/3 Any other explanation of the transience of French Protestantism.
2. The state or quality of being ‘transient’ in sense 2; = transcendence 1 b.
1882–3Schaff's Encycl. Relig. Knowl. I. 370 [Calvinism] emphasizes at once the transience of God beyond, and the immanence of God within, the world. 1906S. S. Laurie Synthetica I. i. i. 6 The difficulties that arise in connection with the transeunce. 1914C. D. Broad Perception ii. 105 Leibniz and Lotze would have overlooked the immanence in the whole system,..and fastened on the transeunce within it with respect to its various elements. |