▪ I. ˈoutflowing, vbl. n.
[out- 9.]
The action of flowing out, efflux, effluence.
| 1678 Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §32. 516 The Supreme God..together with his outflowing, and all the extent of fecundity. 1884 H. B. Mackey tr. St. Francis de Sales' Treat. Love of God vi. xii. 267 The outflowing of a soul into her God is a true ecstasy. 1894 Daily News 30 June 5/4 His family feel the outflowings of universal sympathy. 1932 F. J. Sheed Irish Way 332 Work itself was..an outflowing or a special directing of the steady fixedness of the soul in God. 1953 R. C. Johnson Imprisoned Splendour i. 31 Mystical experiences..are, an out-flowing into awareness of something from a higher level of the self even than the buddhic. |
▪ II. outflowing, ppl. a.
(ˈaʊtfləʊɪŋ, aʊtˈfləʊɪŋ)
[out- 10.]
Flowing out; effluent.
| 1605 Timme Quersit. iii. 162 The out-flowing and breathing forth [parts] are the breathes. 1647 H. More Song of Soul ii. ii. ii. x, In her outflowing lines. a 1711 Ken Hymnotheo Poet. Wks. 1721 III. 355 Thou always art out-flowing Deity. 1870 Morris Earthly Par. III. iv. 190 The bright outflowing golden hair. 1975 Sci. Amer. Mar. 33/3 The compact star in its orbit plows through this outflowing wind and captures only a tiny part of its matter. |