[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality or condition of being transitory.
1590. Nashe, Pasquil’s Apol., I. D ij. In respect of the transitorinesse of worldly kingdoms.
1670. Clarendon, Contempl. Ps., Tracts (1727), 685. The vanity of this world, of the unsteadiness and transitoriness of all things in it.
1756. Johnson, Lett., 15 April, in Boswell. The uncertainty of fortune,… the transitoriness of beauty.
1852. Lewis, Observ. & Reason. in Pol., I. 221. Written memorials are distinguished by permanence and solidity, as contrasted with the fugacity and transitoriness of oral tradition.
1899. Inge, Chr. Mysticism, i. 23. We may regard the spiritual world as endless duration opposed to transitoriness.
