refluent
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin refluens, present active participle of refluō (“I flow back”).
Pronunciation
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[edit]refluent (comparative more refluent, superlative most refluent)
- (now literary) Flowing back.
- Synonym: ebbing
- 1794, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia[2], London: J. Johnson, Volume 1, Section 14, Chapter 7, p. 123:
- When the muscles of the heart cease to act, the refluent blood again distends or elongates them;
- 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “5”, in Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC:
- […] in haste the refluent ocean
Fled away from the shore, and left the line of the sand-beach
Covered with waifs of the tide, with kelp and the slippery sea-weed.
- 1928, Virginia Woolf, chapter 6, in Orlando: A Biography, London: The Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished as Orlando: A Biography (eBook no. 0200331h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, July 2015:
- now floods back refluent like a tide, the red, thick stream of life again
Translations
[edit]flowing back
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Latin
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