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fleeting (adj.)
early 13c., "fickle, shifting, unstable," from Old English
fleotende
"floating, drifting," later "flying, moving swiftly," from present participle of
fleotan
(see
fleet
(v.)). Meaning "existing only briefly" is from 1560s.
