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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Shortlivedadjective
Not living or lasting long.
Etymology: short and live.
Unhappy parent of a shortliv’d son!
Why loads he this embitter’d life with shame? Dryden.The joyful shortliv’d news soon spread around,
Took the same train. Dryden.Some vices promise a great deal of pleasure in the commission; but then, at best, it is but shortlived and transient, a sudden flash presently extinguished. Edmund Calamy, Sermons.
The frequent alterations in publick proceedings, the variety of shortlived favourites that prevailed in their several turns under the government of her successors, have broken us into these unhappy distinctions. Joseph Addison, Freeholder.
A piercing torment that shortlived pleasure of your’s must bring upon me, from whom you never received any offence. Joseph Addison, Spectator.
All those graces
The common fate of mortal charms may find;
Content our shortliv’d praises to engage,
The joy and wonder of a single age. Addison.Admiration is a shortlived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries. Addison.
In youth alone its empty praise we boast;
But soon the shortliv’d vanity is lost. Alexander Pope.Then palaces shall rise; the joyful son
Shall finish what his shortliv’d sire begun. Alexander Pope.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of shortlived in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of shortlived in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
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