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Diffuse   /dɪfjˈus/  /dɪfjˈuz/   Listen
Diffuse

adjective
1.
Spread out; not concentrated in one place.
2.
(of light) transmitted from a broad light source or reflected.  Synonyms: diffused, soft.
3.
Lacking conciseness.
verb
(past & past part. diffused; pres. part. diffusing)
1.
Move outward.  Synonyms: fan out, spread, spread out.
2.
Spread or diffuse through.  Synonyms: imbue, interpenetrate, penetrate, permeate, pervade, riddle.  "Music penetrated the entire building" , "His campaign was riddled with accusations and personal attacks"
3.
Cause to become widely known.  Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread.  "Circulate a rumor" , "Broadcast the news"



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"Diffuse" Quotes from Famous Books



... satisfaction of those who witnessed our drawing, that what we asserted was true to the letter. We copy the notices of the American Courier, one of the first papers of our country in the cause of humanity, and ever ready to diffuse that which will promote the happiness and ...
— Secret Band of Brothers • Jonathan Harrington Green
... born, surely I ought to begin afterward. I think a man born to wealth ought to doubt his moral title to it, and ought to set to work to prove it—ought to set himself to repair the injustice of fortune by which he profits. Yes, such a man should be a sort of human sunshine, and diffuse blessings all round him. The poor man that encounters him ought to bless the accident. But there, I am not eloquent. You know how much more I ...
— The Woman-Hater • Charles Reade
... and has been dramatised in France and in America. While it is assuredly a great work, and one that nobody except a genius could have written, I do not think it is Dostoevski's most characteristic novel, nor his best. It is characteristic in its faults; it is abominably diffuse, filled with extraneous and superfluous matter, and totally lacking in the principles of good construction. There are scenes of positively breathless excitement, preceded and followed by dreary drivel; but the success of the book does not depend on its action, but rather on the characters of Sonia, ...
— Essays on Russian Novelists • William Lyon Phelps
... participates in the Divine goodness, so as to diffuse the good it possesses to others; for it is of the nature of good to communicate itself to others. Hence also corporeal agents give their likeness to others so far as they can. So the more an agent is established in the share of the Divine goodness, so much the more does ...
— Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) - From the Complete American Edition • Thomas Aquinas
... according to Gustave Le Bon, it is the "condensed" soul of our ancestors, which is true, beyond a doubt, but only a part of the truth, for we find in it also the soul of the future and probably of many other forces which are not necessarily human. William James saw in it a diffuse cosmic consciousness and the chance intrusion into our scientifically organized world of remnants and bestiges of the primordial chaos. Here are a number of images striving to give us an idea of a reality so vast that we are unable to grasp it. It ...
— The Unknown Guest • Maurice Maeterlinck


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