refluent

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
14
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈɹɛflu.ənt/

Definition of refluent

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (literary)Flowing back.
    “[…] let them cast it [my soul] downe Where refluent Oceanus doth crowne His curled head;”
    “When the muscles of the heart cease to act, the refluent blood again distends or elongates them;”
    “[…] in haste the refluent ocean Fled away from the shore, and left the line of the sand-beach Covered with waifs of the tide, with kelp and the slippery sea-weed.”
    “now floods back refluent like a tide, the red, thick stream of life again”

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Etymology

From Latin refluens, present active participle of refluō (“to flow back”).

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