effluence
pronunciation
How to pronounce effluence in British English:
UK ['eflʊəns]
How to pronounce effluence in American English:
US ['eflʊrns]
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- Noun:
- the process of flowing out
Word Origin
- effluence (n.)
- c. 1600, "that which flows out;" 1620s, "act of flowing out," from Late Latin effluentia, from Latin effluentem (nominative effluens) "flowing out," present participle of effluere "to flow out," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + fluere "to flow" (see fluent). Related: Effluency.
Antonym
Example
- 1. Something that flows out or forth ; an effluence .
- 2. And , as if the gloom of the earth and sky had been but the effluence of these two mortal hearts , it vanished with their sorrow .
- 3. The economic globalization also brings deep effluence to china , which is like a " double-edged sword " , with opportunities and challenges in it .
- 4. Know what to write having come out basking neither today , a small landed estate that 2004 makes has been ought to have no problem coming the house , the effluence , work has not been dared other , meter , fine , has been turned over out by customer doctrine to let cool down .
- 5. The child 's own nature had something wrong in it which continually betokened that she had been born amiss -- the effluence of her mother 's lawless passion -- and often impelled hester to ask , in bitterness of heart , whether it were for ill or good that the poor little creature had been born at all .