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effluence

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ef·flu·ence  (fl-ns)
n.
1. The act or an instance of flowing out.
2. Something that flows out or forth; an emanation: "tremendous emotional effluences that affected blocks of people at a time, causing them to walk faster" (Coleman Dowell).
effluence [ˈɛflʊəns], efflux [ˈɛflʌks]
n
1. the act or process of flowing out
2. something that flows out
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.effluence - the process of flowing out
efflux, outflow
flow - any uninterrupted stream or discharge
Translations
effluence
n → Abwasser nt
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The child's own nature had something wrong in it which continually betokened that she had been born amiss -- the effluence of her mother's lawless passion -- and often impelled Hester to ask, in bitterness of heart, whether it were for ill or good that the poor little creature had been born at all.
The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
I remember it now, and I know that it was the effluence of fine intellect, of true courage; it lit up her marked lineaments, her thin face, her sunken grey eye, like a reflection from the aspect of an angel.
Jane Eyre by Bronte, Charlotte View in context
He divined it in the way the girl looked at the young painter, and in his air of possession; and as Philip sat with them he felt a kind of effluence surrounding them, as though the air were heavy with something strange.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
 
 
 
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