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Definition of transitorily : In a transitory manner; with brief continuance.

Synonyms:

cursorily, temporarily, flickeringly, passingly, impermanently, instantaneously, transiently, restlessly, momentarily, rootlessly, briefly, evanescently, fleetingly

Usage examples:

• Mr. Siddons made me aware of my clothed self as a visible object, I surveyed my garmented being in mirrors and was trained to feel the " awfulness" of various other small boys who appeared transitorily in the smaller Park when Lady Ladislaw extended her wide hospitality to certain benevolent London associations. - "The Passionate Friends", Herbert George Wells.
• The one reveals individual life to us by the play of circumstance, the interaction of events, the correlative eduction of personal characteristics: the other by his apprehension of that quintessential movement or mood or phase wherein the soul is transitorily visible on its lonely pinnacle of light. - "Life of Robert Browning", William Sharp.