The Only Use of
confluence
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- …alluvial deposits: its weight and volume and density: its imperturbability in lagoons and highland tarns: its gradation of colours in the torrid and temperate and frigid zones: its vehicular ramifications in continental lakecontained streams and confluent oceanflowing rivers with their tributaries and transoceanic currents, gulfstream, north and south equatorial courses: its violence in seaquakes, waterspouts, Artesian wells, eruptions, torrents, eddies, freshets, spates, groundswells,…†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(confluence) a place where things merge or flow together -- especially rivers; or a coming together