effluencen.
/ˈɛfl(j)uːəns/ 1.
a. A flowing out (esp. of light, electricity, magnetism, etc.); also transferred a (tumultuous) streaming forth (of men).
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1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated i. iii. 54 Electricall bodies..draw other bodies vnto them by reason of a moist effluence of vapours.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. ii. 64 Where the greater continents are joyned, the action and effluence [of magnetism] is also greater. View more context for this quotation
1760 Philos. Trans. 1759 (Royal Soc.) 51 386 The cohesion cannot be owing to an effluence and affluence of one and the same electrical fluid.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. i. i. 6 That stormful effluence towards the Frontiers.
1877 L. Morris Epic of Hades iii. 3 Dazzled by that fine effluence of light.
b. figurative.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > copious or continuous
gushingc1380
streaming1398
manation?a1425
pouring?a1425
outflowinga1586
effluence1628
effluxion1638
effluvium1651
efflux1651
outflow1785
beteeming1871
1628 T. Spencer Art of Logick 196 Truth, not of constitution..But, of emanation, effluence, and consecution.
a1716 R. South Serm. in Daily Tel. (1883) 10 July 5/4 The fulness and effluence of man's enjoyments.
1836 New Monthly Mag. 48 203 In this effluence of words..the genuine art of dramatic writing consists.
2.
a. concrete. That which flows forth; an emanation.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > of intangible things or particles from an object > that which
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expiration1576
project1596
deflux1603
defluxion1603
effluence1603
resultation1603
resultance1611
resultancy1613
effluxion1625
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elapsea1677
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1301 All water and moisture..they call the effluence of Osiris.
1718 M. Prior Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 311 Heav'n's fuller Effluence mocks our dazl'd Sight.
1862 F. Hall tr. N. N. Gore Rational Refut. Hindu Philos. Syst. 225 When the jar is seen, an effluence of the internal organ..takes its form.
1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 276 Colour is an effluence of form.
b. figurative.
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1635 A. Gil Sacred Philos. Holy Script. i. viii. 30 We speake of goodnesse, of power, &c. as of the effluences..thereof.
a1711 T. Ken Edmund in Wks. (1721) II. xiii. 371 And to support the Martyr, on his Head Consolatory Effluences shed.
1860 J. L. Motley Hist. Netherlands (1868) I. v. 148 The effluence which came so naturally from the tranquil eyes of William the Silent.
1865 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire (new ed.) VIII. lxiv. 70 They were persuaded that the empire itself..was an effluence from the divine regimen of the world.
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