sacred vs transient

sacred

adj
  • Consecrated; dedicated; devoted 

  • Designated or exalted by a divine sanction; possessing the highest title to obedience, honor, reverence, or veneration; entitled to extreme reverence; venerable. 

  • Characterized by solemn religious ceremony or religious use, especially, in a positive sense; consecrated, made holy. 

  • Not to be profaned or violated; inviolable. 

  • Spiritual; concerned with metaphysics. 

  • Religious; relating to religion, or to the services of religion; not secular 

transient

adj
  • Intermediate. 

  • Occasional; isolated; one-off 

  • having a positive probability of being left and never being visited again. 

  • Passing or disappearing with time; transitory. 

  • Decaying with time, especially exponentially. 

  • Operating beyond itself; having an external effect. 

  • Passing through; passing from one person to another. 

  • Remaining for only a brief time. 

noun
  • A relatively loud, non-repeating signal in an audio waveform that occurs very quickly, such as the attack of a snare drum. 

  • A homeless person. 

  • homestay 

  • A transient phenomenon, especially an electric current; a very brief surge. 

  • A module that generally remains in memory only for a short time. 

  • Something that is transient. 

  • A person who passes through a place for a short time; a traveller; a migrant worker. 

How often have the words sacred and transient occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )