refluence

English

Alternative forms

• refluency

Noun

refluence (countable and uncountable, plural refluences)

1. The state or quality of being refluent, of flowing back.
2. A flowing back.
   • 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:

     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.

References

• “refluence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.