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English
Etymology
From Middle French momentané, from Late Latin momentaneus.
Adjective
momentany (comparative more momentany, superlative most momentany)
- (obsolete) Momentary, transient.
- 1570, John Dee, in H. Billingsley (trans.) Euclid, Elements of Geometry, Preface:
- hynges sensibly perceiued: as of a momentanye sounde iterated .
1620, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York Review of Books, published 2001, page 47:Some were brawling, some fighting, riding, running, solicite ambientes, callide litiganes, for toys and trifles, and such momentany things […]
c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,
Making it momentary as a sound,