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noun

Conflux n.

A flowing together; a meeting of currents. "The conflux of meeting sap." "The general conflux and concourse of the whole people."

A large assemblage; a passing multitude. "To the gates cast round thine eye, and see What conflux issuing forth, or entering in."

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Etymology of 'Conflux'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Conflux" Quotes from Famous Books

... once said of man: "Stands he not thereby in the centre of Immensities, in the conflux of Eternities?" One day I saw the American army standing "in the centre of immensities, in the conflux of eternities," at the focus of histories. One day I saw the American army in France march in answer to General Pershing's offer to the Allies at the beginning of the big drive, ...

— Soldier Silhouettes on our Front • William L. Stidger

... this analysis goes, the experiences are only psychological phenomena. They possess, it is true, enormous biological worth. Spiritual strength really increases in the subject when he has them, a new life opens for him, and they seem to him a place of conflux where the forces of two universes meet; and yet this may be nothing but his subjective way of feeling things, a mood of his own fancy, in spite of the effects produced. I now turn to my second question: What is the ...

— The Varieties of Religious Experience • William James