Hypertext Webster Gateway: "effluence"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Effluence \Ef"flu*ence\, n. [Cf. F. effluence.]
1. A flowing out, or emanation.

2. That which flows or issues from any body or substance;
issue; efflux.

Bright effluence of bright essence increate!
--Milton.

And, as if the gloom of the earth and sky had been
but the effluence of these two mortal hearts, it
vanished with their sorrow. --Hawthorne.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

effluence
n : the process of flowing out [syn: {outflow}, {efflux}] [ant:
{inflow}, {inflow}]

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