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noun

Effluence n.

A flowing out, or emanation.

That which flows or issues from any body or substance; issue; efflux. "Bright effluence of bright essence increate!" "And, as if the gloom of the earth and sky had been but the effluence of these two mortal hearts, it vanished with their sorrow."

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Etymology of 'Effluence'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Effluence" Quotes from Famous Books

... its lone fastness high, Upon our life a ruling effluence send; And when it fails, fight as we will, we die, And while it ...

— A Handbook for Latin Clubs • Various

... for movement. Gather up the effects—all that we have brought with us out of the past: it will find use. For woman has been woman so far as she has been anything, and the aromas of that high estate have hung and still hang about her. Bear them along. The finest effluence of her life in the first century of our era, as in this last, was love. Mary then bore the Christ; other Mary's loved him. Woman was first in his life, and last in it. When the bearded magi adored, she ...

— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various

... sapphires, emeralds, and opals, or keeps it gray and brown on the breasts of the same birds under the cloudy skies of Europe, or whitens it here in the bosom of our polar Nature. You know not how to decide whether color is a faculty with which all substances are endowed, or an effect produced by an effluence of light. You admit the saltness of the sea without being able to prove that the water is salt at its greatest depth. You recognize the existence of various substances which span what you think to be the void,—substances ...

— Seraphita • Honore de Balzac

... world. Now they are disbelieved on scientific grounds. They may possibly be believed again on grounds of philosophy and historic evidence, not as portents, not as violations of law, not as the basis of a logical argument, but as the natural effluence and outcome of a soul like that of Jesus, into which a supernatural influx of light and life had descended. They are not more wonderful than nature; they are not so wonderful as the change of heart by which a bad man becomes a good man. But they ...

— Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors • James Freeman Clarke

... of heaven first-born Or of the Eternal co-eternal beam May I express thee unblamed? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity—dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright ...

— James Nasmyth's Autobiography • James Nasmyth

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