effluence
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In these homes, effluence from toilets and showers flows through drains into a pit in a yard instead of into a sewer line and to a central wastewater treatment plant.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 5, 2023
So many words, words upon words, the effluence of the dialogue being the show’s draw, as well as one of its drawbacks.
From Washington Post • Oct. 15, 2020
The combined effluence of 400-plus Antarctic lakes no doubt exerts a significant influence on the Southern Ocean’s chemistry and biology.
From Scientific American • Apr. 12, 2020
Green sludge came to represent the effluence of government and industry—toxic waste as literal and figurative pollution.
From Slate • Jul. 18, 2016
He believed primarily in a sanative effluence, and his method seems to have been a combination of passes, suggestion, and a supposed "metallotherapy" or "magneto-therapy"—the celebrated baquet—which no doubt was merely a form of suggestion.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
Vocabulary lists containing effluence
By the Roots: Fluere: to flow (flu-)
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