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English
Etymology
From French effluence, from Latin effluentia.
Pronunciation
Noun
effluence (countable and uncountable, plural effluences)
- The process of flowing out.
- Something that flows out; the issue.
1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Aphorisms on that which is indeed spiritual religion”, in Aids to Reflection, page 197:But we have grounds to believe, that there are yet other Rays or Effluences from the Sun, which neither Feeling nor Sight can apprehend, but which are to be inferred from the effects.
1905, William George Aston, Shinto: The Way of the Gods, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., page 26:The doctrine of spiritism is associated in Shinto with the word Mitama, for which "spirit" is the nearest English equivalent. Strictly speaking, the Mitama is not the God, but an emanation or effluence from him, which inhabits his temple, and is the vehicle of his action at a distance from the place where he himself resides.
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French
Noun
effluence f (plural effluences)
- effluence
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