refluence

Its disappearance from the stage of time is not an extinction of essence—a reduction to nonentity; it is only a refluence into its original source.

If his death was sudden, or if it took place away from home, or during our absence, we expect to see him again; if a vehicle stops at the door, the heart beats with an instantaneous hope which dies with its first breath, bringing over us a deeper and stronger refluence of sorrow.

"The Inn Album," a dramatic poem of extraordinary power, has so much more markedly the defects of his qualities that I take it to be, at the utmost, the poise of the first gradual refluence.

Antonym: stagnant. flowing back. refluent, ebbing.--n. refluence, ebb. flowing in. influx.--a. influent, incurrent. flowing out. efflux, effluxion, effluence.--a. effluent, excurrent. flowing round. circumfluent. fluctuate, v. vacillate, waver, oscillate, whiffle, swerve.

Basso, in brief, shalt have no tribute here, Nor shall the heathens live upon our spoil: First will we raze the city-walls ourselves, Lay waste the island, hew the temples down, And, shipping off our goods to Sicily, Open an entrance for the wasteful sea, Whose billows, beating the resistless banks, 118 Shall overflow it with their refluence.