Definition of "refluence" [ref•lu•ence]

• The quality of being refluent; a flowing back. (noun)

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• "The influx of the flood tossed him like a log forward into the cabin, where he would have drowned but for the refluence of the sinking motion."
• "On lighthouses heavily barred doors have been burst outward by the explosive force of the air within, as it was released from pressure when a partial vacuum was formed by the refluence of the wave."
• "“The Inn Album,” a dramatic poem of extraordinary power, has so much more markedly the defects of his qualities that I take it to be, at the utmost, the poise of the first gradual refluence."