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Conflux   Listen
noun
Conflux  n.  
1.
A flowing together; a meeting of currents. "The conflux of meeting sap." "The general conflux and concourse of the whole people."
2.
A large assemblage; a passing multitude. "To the gates cast round thine eye, and see What conflux issuing forth, or entering in."





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"Conflux" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Police of Paris, remarks, that there seem to be different periods for different crimes. He had always observed the summer months to be comparatively months of low riot. November began the burglaries, January and February the stealing of pocket-handkerchiefs and snuff-boxes, probably from the conflux to the theatres at that time. But, that swindling transactions, and all other frauds that require peculiar ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 13, No. 363, Saturday, March 28, 1829 • Various
... once a great conflux of people in Abdera, a City of the Greeks, at the acting of the Tragedy of Andromeda, upon an extream hot day: whereupon, a great many of the spectators falling into Fevers, had this accident from the heat, and from The Tragedy ...
— Leviathan • Thomas Hobbes


Words linked to "Conflux" :   confluence, merging, blending


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