Both Uses of
effusion
in
Middlemarch
- — When Dorothea accepted him with effusion, that was only natural; and Mr. Casaubon believed that his happiness was going to begin.†
Chpt 3 *
- She put out her hand to Rosamond, and they said an earnest, quiet good-by without kiss or other show of effusion: there had been between them too much serious emotion for them to use the signs of it superficially.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(effusion as in: effusions of domestic joy) an enthusiastic expression of feelings or thoughts
or:
something flowing or given off (often a liquid or gas under pressure such as blood or leaking gas)