ephemerous

ephemerous (comparative more ephemerous, superlative most ephemerous)

1. (archaic) Ephemeral.
   • 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC, page 282:

     Hope, fear, alarm, jealouſy, the ephemerous tale that does its buſineſs and dies in a day, all theſe things, which are the reins and ſpurs by which leaders check or urge the minds of followers, are not eaſily employed, or hardly at all, amongſt ſcattered people.

• “ephemerous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.