Antonyms for effluence

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

Synonyms for effluence

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