refluent
English
Adjective
refluent (comparative more refluent, superlative most refluent)
- (now literary) Flowing back.
- Synonym: ebbing
- c. 1615, George Chapman (translator), Homer’s Odysses, London: Nathaniell Butter, Book , p. 309,
- […] let them cast it [my soul] downe
- Where refluent Oceanus doth crowne
- His curled head;
- 1794, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia, London: J. Johnson, Volume 1, Section 14, Chapter 7, p. 123,
- When the muscles of the heart cease to act, the refluent blood again distends or elongates them;
- 1847, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, Part 1, Section 5,
- […] in haste the refluent ocean
- Fled away from the shore, and left the line of the sand-beach
- Covered with waifs of the tide, with kelp and the slippery sea-weed.
- 1928, Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography, Penguin, 1942, Chapter 6, p. 208,
- now floods back refluent like a tide, the red, thick stream of life again
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