refluent en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈɹɛflu.ənt/
Etymology
From Latin refluens, present active participle of refluō (“to flow back”).
Meanings
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(literary) Flowing back.
[…] let them cast it [my soul] downe Where refluent Oceanus doth crowne His curled head;
c. 1615, George Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses, London: Nathaniell Butter, Book , p. 309:When the muscles of the heart cease to act, the refluent blood again distends or elongates them;
1794, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia, London: J. Johnson, Volume 1, Section 14, Chapter 7, p. 123:[…] 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.
1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “5”, in Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC:now floods back refluent like a tide, the red, thick stream of life again
1928, Virginia Woolf, chapter 6, in Orlando: A Biography, London: The Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished as Orlando: A Biography (eBook no. 0200331h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, July 2015:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more refluent | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most refluent | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Synonyms
Translations (3)
la refluus (flowing back) · bg оттеглящ се (flowing back) · it refluo (flowing back)