superflux
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a word derived from
flux.
fluxnouna flowing or flow.
Example Sentences
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I do not think that I have overdrawn at Hammersley's; but if that be the case, I can draw for the superflux on Hoare's.
From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore
Our industrialism, our militarism, our love of progress, our missionary zeal, our imperialism, our passion for dominating and organizing, all spring from a superflux of the itch for activity.
From The Problem of China by Bertrand Russell
No wonder that the theatre, which can only be fed by the superflux of all other departments of society, should droop, neglected and unsupported.
From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 by S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter
"Take physic, pomp!Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel;That thou mayst shake the superflux to them,And show the Heavens more just."
From Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine by Edwin Waugh
Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them And show the heavens more just.
From King Lear by William Shakespeare