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Fluence

Fluence \Flu"ence\, n. Fluency. [Obs.]
--Milton.

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fluence

Etymology 1 n. 1 (context obsolete English) fluency. 2 (context physics English) A measure of particle flux (or that of a pulse of electromagnetic radiation). Etymology 2

n. A magical or mysterious force; hypnotic power; energy.

Usage examples of "fluence".

He was cursing his own fluence and wishing very hard that Mickie had never put in an appearance at the Club UniĆ³n that night.

The fluence was rushing all over his body, tickling his shoulders, throbbing in his temples and singing in his ears.

Harry boy, I've said it before and I'll say it again, you've got more fluence in you than Paganini and Gigli together and all you ever needed was the right bus pulling up at the right stop on the right day and before you knew it you'd be on your way there, no waiting in the corridor like the rest of us, well this is the bus.

Brows down, tip of tongue protruding, Mickie determinedly forgotten, the fluence beginning to rise in him.

You don't get the fluence, not during the daytime, not with the doorbell going all the time.

It covered an irregularly triangular area that stretched for five miles or so along the banks of Havilbove Fluence, jigged in a southeasterly way down to the outskirts of Mazadone Forest Preserve, and swung by roundabout curves back toward the river to the north.

She housed him in the great house, she breached the casks of fireshower wine and brandied niyk, she sent her grandsons off to Havilbove Fluence to catch the tasty little hiktigans that scurried between the rocks of the rapids, she ordered the frozen bidlak steaks to be thawed and roasted over logs of aromatic thwale.

These were countries where black tribes ruled themselves, free of the white man's heavy paternal fluences, and he listened with awe as they spoke of how their families lived on equal terms with the whites around them.