refluence
(ˈrɛfluːəns)
[See refluent and -ence.]
A flowing back; a reflux.
| c 1592 Marlowe Jew of Malta iii. iv, The wastfull sea, Whose billowes..Shall ouerflow it with their refluence. 1615 Crooke Body of Man 167 To hinder the refluence or returne of the..vnprofitable humors. 1621 Lodge Summary of Du Bartas 106 In the sea, betwixt Norway, and Scotland, there is clerely obserued a flow and refluence. 1817 Shelley Rev. Islam xii. ix, Like the refluence of a mighty wave Sucked into the loud sea. 1861 Mrs. Browning Psyche & Pan 4 The gentle river..cast up Psyche, with a refluence brave, Upon the flowery bank. |
| transf. and fig. a 1592 Greene Jas. IV, iv. iii, One hornpipe further, a refluence back, and two doubles forward. 1842 Alison Hist. Europe lxxiv. §78 The refluence of its legions over the Rhine and the Pyrenees..prostrated the financial affairs of the Empire. |
So
† ˈrefluency.
Obs. rare.
| 1615 Crooke Body of Man 400 By..what affluencies and refluencies this perpetuity is accomplished. 1648 W. Mountague Devout Ess. i. vi. §2. 58 How all things sublunary move..in an interchangeable flowing and refluencie. |