• Conflux

    Full definition of conflux

    Noun

    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 gathering of forces, people, or things.
      • 1671, John_Milton, Paradise Regained, Book 4,Cast round thine eye, and seeWhat conflux issuing forth, or entering in:Praetors, proconsuls to their provincesHasting, or on return, in robes of state;Lictors and rods, the ensigns of their power;Legions and cohorts, turms of horse and wings.
      • Eliot Middlemarch|64There was a conflux of emotions and thoughts in him.
      • 1903, Stanley_J._ Weyman, The Long Night, ch. 24,So great was the conflux of torches, the flash and gleam of weapons, and the babel of sounds that it wrought on the mind the impression of a fire blazing up in the night.

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