conflow
/kənˈfloʊ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The morrow next ensuing he departed from thence by the very edge of the river bankes, where the streame was big by occasion of other brookes conflowing thither on every side, marching in warlike sort with his forces armed and weaponed; and there he tooke up his station, and abode under tents: where the potentates and princes of the Saracenes humbly upon their knees presenting unto him a crowne of gold, honoured him as the Lord of the world, and of their nations; who were gladly received, as men meet for warlike brigandize and robberie."
- "Crossed, soon after leaving camp, two small streams, then came to the Lukoke river, which, conflowing with the Meruzi, forms the northern Malagarazi."
- "First and second substantials, the finites which constitute the two radiant belts below the Spiritual Sun, are framed immediately from the primitives of that Sun, by means of their own conflowing and conglobation."
- "You weave so deftly out of Nature, that all one needs is to have leant over your terrace with wits alert, to perceive whence you mould that fairy-world whose every strand of life so beautifully conflows."
- "He paces the islet, from where the river divides to where it reunifies, contemplating the “joyous eddies” created by the two arms conflowing."
Etymology
From con- + flow. Calque of Latin cōnfluō, apparently coined by Philemon Holland in his translations of Suetonius and Ammianus Marcellinus.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /kənˈfloʊ/
- British English: /kənˈfləʊ/