Definition of "refluxes" []

• Plural form of reflux. (noun)

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• "And so, in the even balance between the two categories, the little cripple remained a fixture in the stream of life that passed through that back room, in the fluxes and refluxes of buying and selling; not valueless, however -- rely upon a negro-trader for discovering values as substitutes, as panaceas."
• "If, in the somewhat heated language of Mrs. Jameson, "whatever in religion is holy and sublime, in virtue amiable and grave, whatever hath passion or admiration in the changes of fortune or the refluxes of feeling, whatever is pitiful in the weakness, grand in the strength, or terrible in the perversion of the human intellect," be the domain of tragedy, this correspondence increases upon us."
• "They are with him in the play of feelings, with him in the fluxes and refluxes of his thought -- learning his ways of mind without realizing it."