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EFFLUENCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does effluence mean?
• EFFLUENCE (noun)
The noun EFFLUENCE has 1 sense:
1. the process of flowing out
Familiarity information: EFFLUENCE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The process of flowing out
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("effluence" is a kind of...):
flow (any uninterrupted stream or discharge)
Derivation:
effluent (that is flowing outward)
Context examples
I remember it now, and I know that it was the effluence of fine intellect, of true courage; it lit up her marked lineaments, her thin face, her sunken grey eye, like a reflection from the aspect of an angel.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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