Meanings
nouninfluency (uncountable)
- obsoleteuncountableinfluence
It ascribes the extraordinary occurrences in nature to the influency of invisible beings, and supposes the thunder, the jurricane, and the earthquake, to be the immediate effect of their agency.
1792, William Robertson, An historical disquisition concerning the knowledge which the ancients had of India
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