Both Uses of
influx
in
Middlemarch
- While Mr. Brooke was sealing this letter, he felt elated with an influx of dim projects:—a young man capable of putting ideas into form, the "Pioneer" purchased to clear the pathway for a new candidate, documents utilized—who knew what might come of it all?†
Chpt 3 *
- Mr. Bulstrode, like every one else who knew Caleb, was used to his slowness in beginning to speak on any topic which he felt to be important, and rather expected that he was about to recur to the buying of some houses in Blindman's Court, for the sake of pulling them down, as a sacrifice of property which would be well repaid by the influx of air and light on that spot.†
Chpt 7
Definitions:
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(1)
(influx) arrival of many people or other things
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely (but sometimes seen in classic literature), influx can reference an inflow of water as when Washington Irving wrote: "The stream which they had followed throughout the preceding day was now swollen by the influx of another river".