refluent
adjective
flowing back; ebbing, as the waters of a tide.
refluence
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a word derived from
refluent.
Example Sentences
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The influx of the flood tossed him like a log forward into the cabin, where he would have drowned but for the refluence of the sinking motion.
From Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ by Wallace, Lewis
"The Inn Album", a dramatic poem of extraordinary power, has so much more markedly the defects of his qualities that I take it to be, at the utmost, the poise of the first gradual refluence.
From Life of Robert Browning by Sharp, William
"The Inn Album," a dramatic poem of extraordinary power, has so much more markedly the defects of his qualities that I take it to be, at the utmost, the poise of the first gradual refluence.
From Life of Robert Browning by Sharp, William
Its disappearance from the stage of time is not an extinction of essence—a reduction to nonentity; it is only a refluence into its original source.
From Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity by Patterson, Robert
The Civil War, indeed, checked the westward flow of population, though it caused no refluence, but after 1870 great progress was made in the creation of new farms and the development of old.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
