Meanings
nounrefluence (countable and uncountable, plural refluences)
plural refluences · alternative refluency
- countableuncountableThe state or quality of being refluent, of flowing back.
- countableuncountableA flowing back.
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.
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
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