influx
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈɪnˌflʌks/
influx
- A flow inward or into something; a coming in.
- Synonyms: infusion, intromission, introduction, importation
- I'll buy a new computer when I get an influx of cash.
- the general influx of Greek into modern languages
- That which flows or comes in.
- 18, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 17, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (
please specify ), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323 ↗:
- (obsolete) influence; power.
- In this sense it is now not used. Adam, in innocence, might have held, by the continued influx of the divine will and power, a state of immortality.
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