a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iii. 366 Alas too much beloued Zelmane, the thoughts are but outflowings of the minde, and the tongue is but a seruant of the thoughtes.

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 516 The Supreme God..together with his Outflowing, and all the extent of Fecundity.

1865 T. F. Knox tr. Life H. Suso 304 The co-eternal, co-omnipotent indwelling and outflowing of Persons.

1894 Daily News 30 June 5/4 His family feel the outflowings of universal sympathy.

1932 F. J. Sheed Irish Way 332 Work itself was..an outflowing or a special directing of the steady fixedness of the soul in God.

1953 R. C. Johnson Imprisoned Splendour i. 31 Mystical experiences..are, an out-flowing into awareness of something from a higher level of the self even than the buddhic.

2000 G. F. Douglas-Sherwood Gloss. Lighthouse Service Terminol. (Assoc. Lighthouse Keepers) Ebb, the outflowing of a tide.

OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xiv. 148 Þæt utflowende blod, wæs ure alysednys, on synna forgifenysse, mid soðum geleafan.

1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke iii. 162 The out-flowing and breathing forth [parts] are the breathes.

1647 H. More Philos. Poems ii. ii. ii. x In her outflowing lines.

a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo xii, in Wks. (1721) III. 355 Thou always art outflowing Deity.

a1843 W. Allston Lect. on Art & Poems (1850) 51 In the twinkling of an eye, the outflowing sympathies ebb back upon the heart.

1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 190 The bright outflowing golden hair.

1940 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 54 620 There must be an absolutely larger outflowing stream of funds loaned or invested than the inflowing stream from maturing loans and investments.

1997 G. S. Helfman et al. Diversity of Fishes xxii. 391/2 Small fishes must fight outflowing currents of several knots, impeding or reversing any progress they may have made.