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Definition of Refluence
1. n. The quality of being refluent; a flowing back.
Definition of Refluence
1. Noun. The quality of being refluent; a flowing back. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Refluence
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Refluence
Literary usage of Refluence
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Decisions: Containing All the Cases of General Value and by John Proffatt, Abraham Clark Freeman (1887)
"If the dams which existed ten years before the disturbance alleged in the
complainants' bill produced a refluence upon the defendants' land then there might ..."
2. La démocratie libérale by Thomas Hodgkin, Etienne Vacherot (1896)
"His people had been for near twenty years pausing in their career of conquest,
during that mysterious interval, or even refluence of the Saxon wave, ..."
3. The American Historical Review by American Historical Association (1902)
"... if not the creator, seems like a tidal wave ; as obscure in its causes, as
resistless in its devastating progress, as futile in its refluence. ..."
4. American Journal of Philology by Project Muse, JSTOR (Organization) (1908)
"It is curious to watch the progress of doctrine and find that the progress is
really refluence. Take the cases. First comes chaos. ..."
5. The Contemporary Review (1873)
"oscillation, the refluence and welter of the great social and moral wave flung
forward by the wind of revolution which finds expression through his poetry, ..."
6. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"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. ..."
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