efflux
noun
outward flow, as of water.
effluxion
-
a variation of
efflux.
Example Sentences
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Virtually, therefore, these rates had lapsed through effluxion of time.
From The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 by Herbert Joyce
His strength seemed to fade out from him with the mere effluxion of time.
From The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by A. J. (Alec John) Dawson
On the other hand, I have endeavoured, as far as possible, to obliterate chronological references which the effluxion of time has rendered, or may render, misleading.
From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury
On the 11th of April, 1907, the Assembly's term having almost expired by effluxion of time, a dissolution took place, and a general election followed.
From Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information by Queensland
In his business as a journalist, he had not much of that philosophy which says that the daily difficulties of a newspaper are sure to solve themselves by the effluxion of time.
From George Brown by John Lewis
