Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Flowing between; flowing back and forth.
- Flowing together; harmoniously blending: of sounds, forms, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Flowing between or among; intervening.
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- adjective flowing into one another.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Caught up in the interfluent dynamics of this creative breeze, the reader encounters concomitantly a state of spiritual unknowing or non-knowing that opens upon ever-new possibilities for awakening to the full sufficiency of the lived moment.
Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind' 2007
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The glassy lake began to ruffle itself below her, feeling the pulses of its interfluent springs, or sending through unseen sluices word of nightfall and evening winds to all its clustering companions that darkened their transparent depths in forest-shadows.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 Various
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On the ground it was a world of shadows and sunny streaks, kept ever in interfluent motion by such a wind as John Skelton describes:
Wilfrid Cumbermede George MacDonald 1864
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She knew that my glance was upon her; for herself, she looked at the broad lilies that grew at her feet, and listened to the melody that seemed to bubble from a thousand throats with interfluent sound upon the night.
Dark Ways 1863
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a thousand throats with interfluent sound upon the night.
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Castlereagh, Gwydir, and the Dumaresq, with the many minor interfluent waters, which doubtless takes place upon those low levels, forms one or more noble rivers, which may flow across the continent by an almost imperceptible declivity of country to the north of north-west coasts, on certain parts of which, recent surveys have discovered to us extensive openings, by which the largest accumulations of waters might escape to the sea. "
Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Complete Charles Sturt 1832
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Castlereagh, Gwydir, and the Dumaresq, with the many minor interfluent waters, which doubtless takes place upon those low levels, forms one or more noble rivers, which may flow across the continent by an almost imperceptible declivity of country to the north of north-west coasts, on certain parts of which, recent surveys have discovered to us extensive openings, by which the largest accumulations of waters might escape to the sea. "
Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Volume I Charles Sturt 1832
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