Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Flowing back; ebbing.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Flowing or surging back; ebbing: as, the refluent tide.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Flowing back; returning; ebbing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
flowing back - adjective
ebbing
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But I experienced a refluent anxiety on finishing this novel, anxiety at being a woman.
Sabina Murray: On the Women of Freedom and The Marriage Plot Sabina Murray 2012
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But I experienced a refluent anxiety on finishing this novel, anxiety at being a woman.
Sabina Murray: On the Women of Freedom and The Marriage Plot Sabina Murray 2012
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But I experienced a refluent anxiety on finishing this novel, anxiety at being a woman.
Sabina Murray: On the Women of Freedom and The Marriage Plot Sabina Murray 2012
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But I experienced a refluent anxiety on finishing this novel, anxiety at being a woman.
Sabina Murray: On the Women of Freedom and The Marriage Plot Sabina Murray 2012
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But I experienced a refluent anxiety on finishing this novel, anxiety at being a woman.
Sabina Murray: On the Women of Freedom and The Marriage Plot Sabina Murray 2012
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Active pains and joys might fling up, like towers, among my days: but, refluent as air, this hidden urge re-formed, to be the persisting element of life, till near the end.
Wolfowitz of Arabia Steve Sailer 2005
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Active pains and joys might fling up, like towers, among my days: but, refluent as air, this hidden urge re-formed, to be the persisting element of life, till near the end.
Archive 2005-03-13 Steve Sailer 2005
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It would appear, then, that there are at least three schools of criticism: the refluent sea-music school; the line-irregularity school, and the school that bids one not criticise but cry.
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For instance, when Swinburne read her poetry he exclaimed: “I have always thought that nothing more glorious in poetry has ever been written”, and went on to say of her New Year Hymn that it was touched as with the fire and bathed as in the light of sunbeams, tuned as to chords and cadences of refluent sea-music beyond reach of harp and organ, large echoes of the serene and sonorous tides of heaven
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The main currents of the nineteenth century, with fluent and refluent tides, clash beneath the controversy; and as soon as one hears its
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