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Synonyms for efflux

Grammar : Noun
Spell : ef-luhks
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɛf lʌks


Définition of efflux

Origin :
  • 1640s, from Latin effluxus, past participle of effluere (see effluence).
  • noun outflow
Example sentences :
  • Everything that he did and all that he said were merely the efflux of his high spirits as a schoolboy.
  • Extract from : « The Fixed Period » by Anthony Trollope
  • Antoninus says that the soul of man is an efflux from the divinity.
  • Extract from : « Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus » by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
  • The fancy shunned them—a problem not to be settled by sudden municipal edicts, but only by the efflux of generations.
  • Extract from : « Your United States » by Arnold Bennett
  • Practical maxims are spoken of, as merely probable, Right and Wrong as the efflux of moral sentiments.
  • Extract from : « The Philosophy of Natural Theology » by William Jackson
  • In general, however, the efflux of water at these inferior openings is surprisingly uniform.
  • Extract from : « Principles of Geology » by Charles Lyell
  • This efflux of their combined energies inspires them and exasperates the mighty resonance of metal which they rule.
  • Extract from : « Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece » by John Addington Symonds
  • Individual souls are an efflux from the all-compassing world-soul.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 » by Various
  • They held that the soul of man is merely an efflux of the universal soul, and that it comes into the body from without.
  • Extract from : « History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) » by John William Draper
  • He saw some large sand banks before him, which had been left bare by the efflux of the tide.
  • Extract from : « Forests of Maine » by Jacob S. Abbott
  • In efflux of time that rule, becoming habitual, would be, No marriages within the local group.
  • Extract from : « Totem and Taboo » by Sigmund Freud

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