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impersistent, a.|ɪmpəˈsɪstənt|
[f. im-2 + persistent.]
Not persistent or enduring.
a1866J. Grote Exam. Utilitarian Philos. (1870) xix. 324 We ought..to know whether some races are strong and persistent,..others weak and impersistent, so as to yield to others and die out. 1888H. T. Brown in Jrnl. Geol. Soc. (1889) XLV. i. 7 An eroded and impersistent bed of hard, fine-grained, Coal⁓measure sandstone. 1965G. J. Williams Econ. Geol. N.Z. iii. 27/2 Various impersistent shoots were worked in the Pandora and South Keep-it-Dark mines. |