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ef⋅flu⋅ence

  [ef-loo-uhns]
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–noun
1. the action or process of flowing out; efflux.
2. something that flows out; emanation.
Origin:
1595–1605; < L efflu- outflow (ef- ef- + flu- flow) + -ence
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ef·flu·ence   (ěf'lōō-əns)   
n.  
  1. The act or an instance of flowing out.
  2. Something that flows out or forth; an emanation: "tremendous emotional effluences that affected blocks of people at a time, causing them to walk faster" (Coleman Dowell).
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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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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effluence 
1603, from L.L. effluentia, from L. effluentem (nom. effluens) "flowing out," prp. of effluere "to flow out," from ex- "out" + fluere "to flow" (see fluent). Effluent (n.) "liquid industrial waste" is recorded from 1930.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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