Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a confluent manner; so that the different parts run into one another irregularly: as, confluently punctate or dotted.
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- adverb In a
confluent manner
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Examples
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May not you and I be confluent in a higher consciousness, and confluently active there, tho we now know it not?
A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy William James 1876
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On the 12th May one nest contained three eggs of a rosy-white, thickly irrorated and blotched with purple or deep claret colour, and at the larger end confluently stained with dull purple, appearing as if beneath the shell.
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870
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The eggs, two in number, of a dull grey-green, closely and in part confluently dashed with streaks of dusky brown. "
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870
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