Both Uses of
effluvium
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- A female tepid effluvium leaks out from her.†
Chpt 15
- …scutchmills: its utility in canals, rivers, if navigable, floating and graving docks: its potentiality derivable from harnessed tides or watercourses falling from level to level: its submarine fauna and flora (anacoustic, photophobe), numerically, if not literally, the inhabitants of the globe: its ubiquity as constituting 90 percent of the human body: the noxiousness of its effluvia in lacustrine marshes, pestilential fens, faded flowerwater, stagnant pools in the waning moon.†
Chpt 17 *
Definition:
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(effluvium) a foul-smelling outflow or vapor -- typically given off by waste