conflux (plural confluxes)

1. A merger of rivers, or the place where rivers merge.
   • 1722, Daniel Defoe, "A Tour Through the Eastern Counties of England,"

     It stands on the conflux of two rivers—the Chelmer, whence the town is called, and the Cann.

2. A convergence or moving#Adjective|moving gathering#Noun|gathering of force#Noun|forces, people, or things.
   • 1671, John Milton, “Book the Fourth”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: Printed by J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398 ↗, lines 61–66, page 81 ↗:

     Thence to the gates caſt round thine eye, and ſee / What conflux iſſuing forth, or entring in: / praetor#English|Pretors, Proconſuls to thir Provinces / Haſting or on return, in robes of State; / Lictors and rods the enſigns of thir power; / Legions and Cohorts, turmes of horſe and wings: {{...}

   • 1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter LXIV, in Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, volume IV, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, OCLC 948783829 ↗, book VII (Two Temptations), page 42 ↗:

     There was a conflux of emotions and thoughts in him that would not let him either give thorough way to his anger or persevere with simple rigidity of resolve.

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