refluence

English

Alternative forms

• refluency

Noun

refluence (countable and uncountable, plural refluences)

1. The quality of being refluent; a flowing back.
   • 1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 360:

     Scared by the faith they feigned, each priestly slave
     Knelt for his mercy whom they served with blood,
     And, like the refluence of a mighty wave
     Sucked into the loud sea, the multitude
     With crushing panic, fled in terror’s altered mood.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “refluence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)