efflation

efflation (usually uncountable, plural efflations)

1. (archaic) A blowing, breathing or puffing out.
   • a. 1718, Thomas Parnell, David:

     a soft efflation of celestial fire

• efflate

• “efflation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.