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effluviant

adj · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

adj

Meaning 1

Of or pertaining to effluvium.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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adj

Meaning 2

Offensively smelly.

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Examples

  • "A formal idea of the heaven and the earth may be obtained by imagining the heaven as at first an effluviant generation from a mono central point, occupying, or creating and occupying space; the earth, as the airiest or end of such generative action, with the gradual relaxation of central tension and abnegation of such centre, the consequence being the formation of a huge internal spherical vacuity, termed in the genetic record 'earth.'" ("Clear as Mud," Richmond Daily Dispatch http://imls.richmond.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ddr;cc=ddr;idno=ddr0886.0025.062;view=text;rgn=div3;node=ddr0886.0025.062%3A3.3.2,Sept. 11, 1863

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