inflood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈinˌflʌd/
Forms: form: infloods
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”).
Senses: examples: text: 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, […]
ref: 1839 June, “The Metropolitan Police Bills. […] Paid Magistrates versus Unpaid Justices.”, in The Monthly Law Magazine and Political Review, volume V, number XVII, London: William Crofts, […]; Dublin: Milliken and Son, →OCLC, page 5:
text: The Spectator went far in working the change desired by [Jonathan] Swift, a stop having been put to the inflood of Latin words.
ref: 1850 August, “Art. III.—1. The English Language. By R[obert] G[ordon] Latham, […] . Second Edition. London, 1848. 2. Outlines of English Literature. By T. B. Shaw, […]. London, 1849. 3. The Rise, Progress, and Present Structure of the English Language. By the Rev. M. Harrison, […]. London, 1848. [book reviews]”, in [Alexander Campbell Fraser], editor, The North British Review, volume XIII, number XXVI, Edinburgh: W. P. Kennedy, […]; London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co.; Dublin: James M‘Glashan, →OCLC, page 380:
text: 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.
ref: 1869 December 19, Charlton Lane, “The Pretensions of the Papacy: A Sermon”, in The Church of England Magazine. […], volume LXIX, number 2038, London: S. D. Ewins and Sons, […]; Rogerson and Tuxford, […], published 13 August 1870, →OCLC, page 98, column 1:
text: 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.
ref: 1899, “Maintenance of Yards and Docks”, in Annual Reports of the Navy Department for the Year 1899: Report of the Secretary of the Navy. Miscellaneous Reports, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 230:
text: 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."
ref: 1913, Sister Nivedita [Margaret Elizabeth Noble], “The Ship of Flowers”, in Studies from an Eastern Home […], London; New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co. […], →OCLC, page 211:
text: [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.
ref: 1918, Richard J[oseph] Purcell, “The Working Government”, in Connecticut in Transition 1775–1818, Washington, D.C.: American Historical Association; London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, →OCLC, page 213:
text: Chess clambered to his feet, feeling power surge along nerves and muscles, electrifying and painful with his fury. Magic welled out from him, pushing back the inflood of thought and leaving him blissfully alone in his head once more.
ref: 2010, Gemma Files, edited by Sandra Kasturi, A Book of Tongues (The Hexslinger Series; 1), Toronto, Ont.: ChiZine Publications, →ISBN:
text: It is no surprise that the North is receiving an inflood of legal and illegal immigrants as communications improve, for the quickest way for the average southerner to multiply his or her consumption many times is to hop across a border into the North, and there are many borders to choose from.
ref: 2012, Robert H[unter] Wade, “Inequality, Global”, in Helmut K. Anheier, Mark Juergensmeyer, editors, Encyclopedia of Global Studies, volumes 2 (E–I), Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publishing, →ISBN, page 902, column 2:
text: The inflood of support set the stage for a classic narrative denouement in which the underdog triumphs, the villains repent, and the heroes all live on the network happily ever after. But real life rarely resolves as neatly as fiction. The e-mail campaign failed to persuade the university to keep Project Gutenberg alive.
ref: 2016, Justin Peters, “The Infinite Librarian”, in The Idealist: Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet, New York, N.Y.; London: Scribner, →ISBN, page 114:
synonyms: word: inflooding
word: influence
word: tide
glosses: The act or process of flooding or flowing in; an inflow or influx.
Related terms: inflow