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noun

Conflux n.

A flowing together; a meeting of currents. "The conflux of meeting sap." "The general conflux and concourse of the whole people."

A large assemblage; a passing multitude. "To the gates cast round thine eye, and see What conflux issuing forth, or entering in."

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Etymology of 'Conflux'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Conflux" Quotes from Famous Books

... the public mourning; and that, beyond all other foreigners, the Jews for night after night kept watch and ward about the emperor's grave. Never before, according to traditions which lasted through several generations in Rome, had there been so vast a conflux of the human race congregated to any one centre, on any one attraction of business or of pleasure, as to Rome, on occasion of these spectacles ...

— The Caesars • Thomas de Quincey

... The soul is dwarfed whenever it clings to what is palpable and plain, fixed and bounded. Its home is in worlds which cannot be measured and weighed. It has infinite hopes, and longings, and fears; lives in the conflux of immensities; bathes on shores where waves of boundless yearning break. Borne on the wings of time, it still feels that only what is eternal is real,—that what death can destroy is even now but a shadow. To it all outward ...

— Education and the Higher Life • J. L. Spalding

... after four days' march, arrived at a kind of island, formed by the conflux(741) of two rivers, which unite their streams in this place. Here he was chosen umpire between two brothers, who disputed their right to the kingdom. He to whom Hannibal decreed it, furnished his whole army with provisions, clothes, and arms. This was the country of the Allobroges, ...

— The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, • Charles Rollin

Words linked to "Conflux" : confluence, blending, blend, merging