Refluence

The influx of the flood tossed him like a log forward into the cabin, where he would have drowned but for the refluence of the sinking motion. ❋ Unknown (1901)

On lighthouses heavily barred doors have been burst outward by the explosive force of the air within, as it was released from pressure when a partial vacuum was formed by the refluence of the wave. ❋ William Harmon Norton (1900)

“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. ❋ Sharp, William, 1855-1905 (1897)

Supreme wisdom (_Prajná_) of nature, so is it perfected by a refluence to its source, but without loss of individuality; whence Prajna is feigned in the exoteric system to be both the mother and the wife of all the Buddhas, '_janani sarva Buddkánám_,' and '_Jina-sundary_;' for the efflux is typified by a birth, and the reflux by a marriage. ❋ William Elliot Griffis (1885)

"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. ❋ William Sharp (1880)

Since the war a sort of refluence of the old anti-slavery politics carried from his moorings in ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

The masterful waves, as you may know, have for many ages flowed from the West; but now, the old Roman impetus having at last spent itself, a refluence is to set in, and the East in its turn pour a dominating flood upon the West. ❋ Lewis Wallace (1866)

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. ❋ Robert Patterson (1857)