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temporal
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synonyms: ephemeral, evanescent, fugacious ???
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Definition:1. Of or pertaining to time, that is, to the present life, or this world; secular, as distinguished from sacred or eternal.2. Civil or political, as distinguished from ecclesiastical; as, temporal power; temporal courts.Syn. -- Transient; fleeting; transitory.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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'Tis manifest that, as things temporal are all doomed to pass and perish, so within and without they abound with trouble and anguish and travail, and are subject to infinite perils;
Giovanni Boccaccio. The Decameron
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[He] left his house for the final time while my mother was granted her most temporal wish.
Alice Sebold. The Lovely Bones, p.197 (2002)
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His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
William Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice
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—head-aches and heart-aches innumerable had been cured there,—difficulties spiritual and temporal solved there,—all by one good, loving woman, God bless her!
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin
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What can you not do
Against lords spiritual or temporal,
That shall oppone you?
Ben Jonson. The Alchemist (1610)
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beneath the most ordinary places, her dressmaker's flat, the Avenue du Bois, the Hippodrome, he could feel (dissembled there, by virtue of that temporal superfluity which, after the most detailed account of how a day has been spent, always leaves something over, that may serve as a hiding place for certain unconfessed actions)Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1] (1913).
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