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effusion
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Definition:1. an outpouring of liquid, fragrance or emotion2. [medicine] an escape of fluid into a body cavity
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He, she thought must have an inexhaustible love to lavish it upon the crowd with such effusion.
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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Her daughters listened in silence to this effusion, sensible that any attempt to reason with her or soothe her would only increase the irritation.
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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a teacher who occupied the same room with me kept me from the subject to which I longed to recur, by a prolonged effusion of small talk.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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the ultimate period of his hot fit of lust, which his power was too short liv'd to carry him through the full execution of; of which my thighs and linen received the effusion.
John Cleland. Fanny Hill, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
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