refluent
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of refluent
1690–1700; < Latin refluent- (stem of refluēns ), present participle of refluere to flow back. See re-, fluent
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So baffled he that wave; but yet again The refluent flood rush’d on him, and with force Resistless dash’d him far into the sea.
From The Odyssey of Homer by William Cowper
The joy of others flow'd O'er his glad spirit like a refluent tide Whose sands were gold.
From Man of Uz, and Other Poems by Lydia Howard Sigourney
Inside the extensive enclosure the multitude divided itself into streams, ponds, eddies, refluent currents and noisy whirlpools of people.
From Hoosier Mosaics by Maurice Thompson
Now, the water pushing through the entrance to this cavern becomes a whirlpool; then, as it belches forth in a refluent wave, it is hurled into a white column.
From Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate by Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner
The ocean at the plunge Of such a weight, high on its refluent flood Tumultuous, heaved the bark well nigh to land.
From The Odyssey of Homer by William Cowper
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