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fluctuant

[ fluhk-choo-uhnt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

ˈfluctuant

/ ˈflʌktjʊənt /

1550–60; < Latin fluctuant- (stem of fluctuāns ) (present participle of fluctuāre to undulate). See fluctuate, -ant

With fluctuant blackness against immutable blackness great sweeping pine trees swished weirdly into the horizon.

Put forth thy wings, thy coronals of Love, wrap thee with fluctuant Winds and exulting Seas!

Somewhere fluctuant in my memory runs broken music—you have heard it?

And the fluctuant oceans plume on plume Bears down to a rock-ribbed hidden doom, And the sky is ashen gray.

Brown is fluctuant; he once lay at a woman's house in Pemlicoe, Dublin.

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