Vocabulary Word
Word: flux
Definition: flowing; series of changes; fluctuation; Ex. in a state of flux
Definition: flowing; series of changes; fluctuation; Ex. in a state of flux
Sentences Containing 'flux'
Again, often meditate how swiftly all things that subsist, and all things that are done in the world, are carried away, and as it were conveyed out of sight: for both the substance themselves, we see as a flood, are in a continual flux; and all actions in a perpetual change; and the causes themselves, subject to a thousand alterations, neither is there anything almost, that may ever be said to be now settled and constant.
In such a flux and course of all things, what of these things that hasten so fast away should any man regard, since among all there is not any that a man may fasten and fix upon?
“The language of this country being always upon the flux, the _struldbrugs_ of one age do not understand those of another; neither are they able, after two hundred years, to hold any conversation (farther than by a few general words) with their neighbours the mortals; and thus they lie under the disadvantage of living like foreigners in their own country.” This was the account given me of the _struldbrugs_, as near as I can remember.
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