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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
refluence en · NOUN
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(countable, uncountable) The state or quality of being refluent, of flowing back.
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(countable, uncountable) A flowing back.
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.
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:
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