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Definition of Confluxes
1. conflux [n] - See also: conflux
Lexicographical Neighbors of Confluxes
Literary usage of Confluxes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Puritans: Or, The Church, Court, and Parliament of England, During the by Samuel Hopkins (1860)
"... there being great confluxes of people to hear and learn, and the ministers
being forced to read expositors and commentators that so they may acquit ..."
2. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1810)
"... uninterrupted succession of Vale Districts, which accompany the Mersey, the
Dee, the Severn, and the Avon, to their respective confluxes with the sea. ..."
3. The Works of Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825)
"... but it is impossible to pass a day or an hour in the confluxes of men, without
seeing how much indigence is exposed to contumely, neglect, and insult; ..."
4. Eikōn Basilikē: The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in His Solitudes by Charles, John Gauden (1824)
"... then those tumultuary confluxes of mean and rude people, who are taught first
to petition, then to protect, then to dictate, at last to command and ..."
5. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1850)
"Nothing was more to be feared, and less to be used by wise men, than those
tumultuary confluxes of mean and rude people, who are taught first to petition, ..."
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