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

The effluence of her beauty filled the air with light, and she clasped to her heart a snow-white dove that rose to meet her from the tomb.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole