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Grammar : Noun
Spell : ef-loo-uh ns
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɛf lu əns



Definition of effluence

Origin :
  • c.1600, from Late Latin effluentia, from Latin effluentem (nominative effluens) "flowing out," present participle of effluere "to flow out," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + fluere "to flow" (see fluent).
  • As in outflow : noun efflux
  • As in outpouring : noun outflow
  • As in efflux : noun outflow
  • As in effusion : noun outpouring
  • As in emanation : noun emergence, discharge
Example sentences :
  • And the power which the eye possesses is a sort of effluence which is dispensed from the sun?
  • Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
  • I take it that the sun breathes in the effluence of all that fades and dies.
  • Extract from : « Fantasia of the Unconscious » by D. H. Lawrence
  • The sun is materially composed of all the effluence of the dead.
  • Extract from : « Fantasia of the Unconscious » by D. H. Lawrence
  • Each of these must be regarded620 as an effluence, or spark (Nizuz), from Adam.
  • Extract from : « History of the Jews, Vol. IV (of VI) » by Heinrich Graetz
  • The common use of the term influence would seem to imply the existence of its correlative, effluence.
  • Extract from : « A Mortal Antipathy » by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • And, as if the gloom of the earth and sky had been but the effluence of these two mortal hearts, it vanished with their sorrow.
  • Extract from : « The Scarlet Letter » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • What a poet of this second kind produces, as Browning finely states it, will be less a work than an effluence.
  • Extract from : « Robert Browning » by Edward Dowden
  • He loves ever; He is unalterable in the communication and effluence of His heart.
  • Extract from : « Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) » by Alexander Maclaren
  • It is the effluence of a Presence, which alone can create in us, and keep in us, a clean heart.
  • Extract from : « The Book of Isaiah, Volume I (of 2) » by George Adam Smith
  • Less often I may have drunk the effluence of particular passages, as in the case already instanced.
  • Extract from : « The Life of Francis Thompson » by Everard Meynell

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