Read full poem →Hardly would tender her hand to the wooer that candidly told her
That she is but for a space, an _ad-interim_ solace and pleasure,—
That in the end she shall yield to a perfect and absolute something,
Dictionary Entry
A transitional or temporary period between other events.
In a Sentence
“His car is in the shop, but they gave him a rental to drive in the interim.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
report interimgovernment interimperiod interim. interimcommittee interimagreement interiminterim ad
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Poetry examples for “interim”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →at the Grave of Alexander Dumas and Hatred by Gwen-
dolyn B. Bennett; Joy, Solace, Interim by Clarissa
Scott Delany; Confession by Donald Jeffrey Hayes;
Read full poem →throne ;
And this, at whatever interim,
Shall live, and be consummated
Read full poem →Inscriptio.
Quam interim erga cognatos pius et officiosus,
Testetur hoc saxum
Read full poem →scholarship, but as the doctors vetoed my living with my mother in
the interim, I was staying on at the asylum until the winter term
began.
Read full poem →The spirit of love, with a perpetual dulness.
Let this sad interim like the ocean be
Which parts the shore, where two contracted new