Definitions

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  • noun A flowing in; influx.

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  • noun A flowing in; influx.

Etymologies

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From in- +‎ streaming.

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Examples

  • Higher still are the records or memories of individual experience and the registration of individual habits, while on the surface is the instreaming multitude of messages from the outside world, like raindrops and hailstones on the stream, some of them penetrating deeply, being, as we say, full of meaning.

    The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told J. Arthur Thomson 1897

  • Then followed the confusing and confounding impressions of the landing, where the great nation, compelled by experience, seems to guard itself against the instreaming invasion of undesired elements, and investigates and selects with humiliating, apparently heartless strictness, as though we were animals to be examined.

    The Bride of Dreams Frederik van Eeden 1896

  • Katherine rose and stood rocking it, soothing it -- a queenly young figure in her clinging gray and white draperies, which the instreaming sunshine touched, as she moved, to a delicate warmth of colour.

    The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Lucas Malet 1891

  • All these she studied long and carefully, while the dancing glow of the firelight played over the child's delicate flesh, and it extended its little arms in the pleasant warmth, holding them up, as in act of adoration, towards those gracious unseen presences, still, apparently, hovering above the flood of instreaming sunshine against the ceiling overhead.

    The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Lucas Malet 1891

  • And Sarrasin began to recover his reason and his senses, and, brave as he was, his nerves relaxed when he saw in the instreaming light of the morning -- the electric light had been driven out -- that he was still gripping on to the body of the Sicilian, and that half the wretched Sicilian's head had been blown away.

    The Dictator Justin McCarthy 1871

  • Mordecai, clasping it eagerly, seemed to feel a new instreaming of confidence, and he said with some recovered energy -- "This is come to pass, and the rest will come."

    Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1849

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