单词 | transiency |
释义 | transiencyn. 1. The quality or state of being transient, impermanent, or ephemeral; = transience n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > swift movement of time > [noun] > transience frailnessa1300 timelinessa1500 transitoriness1550 fleeting1616 temporality1635 wanzingness1642 transiency1647 impermanency1648 undurableness1648 transientness1653 fugacity1656 evanidness1659 fugaciousness1664 timeishness1674 timesomeness1674 volatilenessa1676 fleetingness1709 deciduousness1727 fleetness1727 momentaneousness1727 preterience1730 transience1739 evanescence1751 unpermanency1751 transitiveness1775 caducity1793 impermanence1796 ephemerality1822 passingness1839 transitionalness1880 anitya1882 diariness1891 anicca1904 ephemeralness1911 1647 O. Sedgwick Nature & Danger of Heresies 27 Although they grow high and perillous, yet there is a suddain transiency in the height and perill. 1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 96 How is it possible there should either be any..observation on the Artists and art, in a transiency so imperceptible? 1722 J. Trenchard & T. Gordon 6th Coll. Cato's Polit. Lett. in London Jrnl. 43 The Course and Transiency of all human Affairs, will not suffer us to live always under the present righteous Administration. 1776 E. Harwood Serm. Parable of Sower iv. 97 The constant mutability and transiency of life, the uncertainty and instability of human condition. 1805 W. Taylor in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) II. 98 A more eager popularity, like that of the ‘Minstrel's Lay’, would be symptomatic of transiency. 1831 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 29 522 They try to perpetuate the transiency of emotions. a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1836) I. 381 From their minuteness and transiency not calculated to stiffen or inflate the individual. 1905 F. Young Sands of Pleasure i. v. 94 Vaguely conscious of the transiency and instability of material life. 2005 A. Ganser in H. Wallinger Transitions: Race, Culture, & Dynamics of Change iii. 245 Transgressive practices (such as the tradition of passing or the ‘invasion’ of queers in spaces socially structured as heterosexual) highlight the transiency of these categories. 2. Philosophy and Theology. Also in form transeuncy. The action or fact of producing an effect external to (the mind of) the agent; the property whereby a thing affects something other than itself; = transience n. 1. Opposed to immanency. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > [noun] > operating beyond itself transiency1655 transience1657 1655 T. Hotchkis Exercitation Nature of Forgivenesse of Sin xxii. 195 The transiency of the act of forgivenesse of sin. 1695 Great Gospel-grace of Faith 35 A Transiency from Christ, and his Righteousness, and of Faith from, and out of it self in the other. 1866 J. Morison Crit. Expos. Third Chapter Paul's Epist. Romans 319 The two ideas of immanency and transiency. 1942 Mind 51 137 Spinoza's central causal theory refers to the world of adequate knowledge as it is directed to entia in se, and its application to transeuncy must be governed by derivation therefrom. 1983 I. Thalberg Misconceptions of Mind & Freedom vii. 172 The major reason we should not reify immanent causing is that we would thereby undermine the novel contrast we started with between immanency and transeuncy. 3. A transient thing or being; something passing, transitory, or impermanent. ΘΚΠ 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 1728 C. Place That Space is Necessary Being 66 The Idea's of Time's Transiencies, its has's and past's. 1866 T. Carlyle E. Irving 318 Poor sickly transiencies that we are, coveting we know not what! 1881 F. T. Palgrave Visions of Eng. 200 On the trivialest transiencies fix'd, or plucking for fruit Dead-sea Apples and ashes of sin, more brute than the brute. 1913 C. H. A. Bjerregaard Great Mother 125 I speak now of Life, not as a biological fact, but as a transit, a transiency, a process. 2007 P. C. Stuart Planting Amer. Flag xii. 186 Their postwar destiny was shunted rudely into the shadows by the transiencies of the American presidency. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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