outflowing
English
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editoutflowing (not comparable)
- flowing out
- 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 60:
- Down over the headland, they came on a rock-strewn space of beach, and from that to the open sand-bar, still glistening from the outflowing tide, that blocked the sea's entrance to the lagoon.
Noun
editoutflowing (plural outflowings)
- The act of something flowing out.
- 1865, Alexander MacLeod, The judgment books, page 17:
- We are accustomed to connect the death of Christ with the outflowings of His mercy […]