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effluence

[ef-loo-uhns] / ˈɛf lu əns /
NOUN
efflux
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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

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

But it actually is a Spanish expression, “of where the sea goes”; while the Spanish never settled this area, they would empty their bilges so the ocean would wash away their effluence.

From Washington Post Oct. 20, 2016

Green sludge came to represent the effluence of government and industry—toxic waste as literal and figurative pollution.

From Slate Jul. 18, 2016

The human form, as the chosen tabernacle of an effluence of the Divine Spirit, might well seem to Dion and Maximus the noblest and most fitting symbol of religious worship.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Samuel Dill




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