inflood
/ˈinˌflʌd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "We are prepared to substantiate our assertion, that two-thirds of the shoal that have of late rushed into our professional main, have been attracted by commissions and offices; have been called in fact to qualify themselves by standing for appointments, without cherishing a hope of maintaining themselves by practice, or even designing to make the attempt. Else why this inflood at a time when courts of quarter sessions are all but abolished, so far as the bar are profited thereby, bail practice annihilated, motions of course made by attorneys'-clerks at the Judges' Chambers, instead of by junior barristers at Westminster, […]"
- "The Spectator went far in working the change desired by [Jonathan] Swift, a stop having been put to the inflood of Latin words."
- "But during the last few years men have been raised up to the rescue of religious liberty, and are stemming back the inflood of papal intolerance."
- "It has frequently been found that these [timber dry] docks have been incapable of successfully resisting this force, and in many instances the altars have been forced off, the sides of the entrance works have been forced inward, the bottom of the dock has been uplifted, and, where defects in the work have existed, an inflood of water once set up has resulted very disastrously and endangered the entire structure."
- "One thinks of the cry of the Jew, sonorous through the ages—the Jew, who loved not the sea, but lifted his eyes to the hills, to find his help, and lost himself, between "I" and "thee," in an inflood of blessedness: "The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in, from this time forth, and even for evermore.""
- "[T]hey were forced to defend their privileges in the name of the Federalist party against an inflood of democracy which came with the diffusion of political education."
Etymology
PIE word *h₁én From in- (prefix meaning ‘in, into; towards’) + flood (“overflow of water from a lake or other body of water; flowing in of the tide; to overflow; to cover or partly fill as if by a flood”). Compare Saterland Frisian Íenfloud (“influence”), West Frisian ynfloed (“influence”), Dutch invloed (“influence”), Middle Low German invlôt (“influence”), German Einfluss (“influence”), Danish indflydelse (“influence”), Swedish inflytande (“influence”), Norwegian innflytelse (“influence”).
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈinˌflʌd/
- British English: /ˈinˌflʌd/