Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Flowing forth or forward.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Flowing forward
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- adjective
Flowing smoothly as if in astream .
Etymologies
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Examples
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As the seven lamps before the throne represent the Spirit of God immanent in the Godhead, so the seven eyes of the Lamb represent the same sevenfold Spirit profluent from the incarnate Redeemer in His world-wide energy.
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Often, when I am drafting longer and less focused pieces, writing becomes for me much more automatic and intuitive and profluent; this set of writings has been, for better or worse, much more deliberate and painstaking at the word and sentence level.
Archive 2008-02-01 Bruce Schauble 2008
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Often, when I am drafting longer and less focused pieces, writing becomes for me much more automatic and intuitive and profluent; this set of writings has been, for better or worse, much more deliberate and painstaking at the word and sentence level.
Penultimate (100x29) Bruce Schauble 2008
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Formerly the bed-coverings were spotlessly white, but the profluent tide of color has included these also.
The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources Anonymous
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The old Major was as profluent of anecdotes as ever, and never grew tired of telling the same ones to every new guest; and yet, the Major's anecdotes were all of Virginia growth, and not one of them under the legal age of twenty-one.
The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi : a series of sketches, 1853
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His gospel is a profluent and mighty stream, fed by the upper springs of infinite wisdom and knowledge.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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But beneath its profluent, proprietary prose there is something of great magnitude.
azcentral.com | news Jay Mark 2010
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Baptizing in the profluent ftream, the fign Of walhing them from guilt of fm to life Pure, and in mind preparM, if fo befall.
The Works of the English Poets.: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical 1779
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1333: Baptizing in the profluent streame, the signe
Paradise Lost (1667) 1667
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Baptizing in the profluent ftreafla, the iign Of wafhing them from guilt of (in to life Pure, and in mind preparM, if fo befall,
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