† forwhilen.
Obsolete rare.
Something that lasts only ‘for a while’.
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the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > swift movement of time > [noun] > transience > transient thing or being
shadowa1272
breathc1275
cloudc1384
cherry-fair1393
transitorya1500
fume1531
forwhilea1557
flitter1623
ephemeran1643
daysman1658
transient1660
fugitive1683
transiency1728
ephemera1751
ephemeron1771
perishable1822
toadstool1823
evanescence1830
a sometime thing1935
a1557 J. Cheke tr. Gospel St. Matthew (1843) xiii. 21 He..hath noo root in himself, and yeerfoor is but a forwhile.
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