fleetingly
English
Etymology
Etymology tree
Adverb
fleetingly (comparative more fleetingly, superlative most fleetingly)
- In a fleeting manner; transiently.
- appear fleetingly
- glimpse fleetingly
- fleetingly visible
- 1957, Bernard Malamud, chapter 1, in The Assistant[1], New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, page 8:
- He wished fleetingly that he could once more be out in the open, as when he was a boy—never in the house, but the sound of the blustery wind frightened him.
- circ. 1965, Mario Puzo, The Godfather:
- She took the holy water on her fingertips and made the sign of the cross, fleetingly touched her wet fingertips to her parched lips. Candles flickered redly before the saints, the Christ on his cross. Kay genuflected before entering her row and then knelt on the hard wooden rail of the pew to wait for her call to Communion.
- 2004, Andrew M. St. Laurent, Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 150:
- The second example, the so-called “clickwrap” license, is more likely to create an enforceable contract. In this variation, the user is required to view, however fleetingly, the terms of the license and to take some affirmative action to agree to its terms, such as by clicking a button that says “Yes, I have read this license and I agree to its terms,” before accessing the licensed software.
- 2017 November, N. K. Jemisin, Mac Walters, chapter 1, in Mass Effect Andromeda: Initiation[2], 1st edition (Science Fiction), Titan Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 32:
- “I’m not sure I understand why we have to send a quadrillion-credit mission to another galaxy.”
He looked fleetingly amused. “Quintillion... and we don’t have a choice, Harper. Any of us, really, but humanity especially.”
- 2021, Stathis Gourgouris, Dream Nation:
- And so the followers of Seferis, although they inherit a method, practice an unmethod, a methodological void. Or, to put it more precisely: although not forced to travel fleetingly from place to place, they travel anyway—to nonplaces, […]
Synonyms
- briefly, flickeringly, temporarily; see also Thesaurus:temporarily
Translations
in a fleeting manner
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