Both Uses of
influx
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- As the animosity of fate would have it, there was a great influx of custom in the course of the afternoon.†
Chpt 4 *
- Thus, Hepzibah was well content to acknowledge Phoebe's vastly superior gifts as a shop-keeper'—she listened, with compliant ear, to her suggestion of various methods whereby the influx of trade might be increased, and rendered profitable, without a hazardous outlay of capital.†
Chpt 5
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".