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noun

Affluence n.

A flowing to or towards; a concourse; an influx. "The affluence of young nobles from hence into Spain." "There is an unusual affluence of strangers this year."

An abundant supply, as of thought, words, feelings, etc.; profusion; also, abundance of property; wealth. "And old age of elegance, affluence, and ease."

Synonyms: Abundance; riches; profusion; exuberance; plenty; wealth; opulence.

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Etymology of 'Affluence'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Affluence" Quotes from Famous Books

... am afraid all this is taking up your time and giving trouble—when I did not expect any such thing!" And she looked at him and at his dress as a man of affluence, and at the furniture he had provided for the room—ornate ...

— The Mayor of Casterbridge • Thomas Hardy

... social side of his administration the grace and charm of her surpassingly wise and lovely character. He never knew in his youth the poverty and hard work which narrowed the early life of Grant and Garfield. He was born to comfort and lived in greater and greater affluence; he had only to profit by his opportunities, while they had to make theirs; but he did profit by them. From school to college, and from college to the study of law, he passed easily successful in all that he tried to do, and he always tried to do ...

— Stories Of Ohio - 1897 • William Dean Howells

... Valjean, must be indicted; so runs the argument. This conclusion we deny. Let us consider. Poverty is not unwholesome. The bulk of men are poor, and always have been. Poverty is no new condition. Man's history is not one of affluence, but one of indigence. This is a patent fact. But a state of lack is not unwholesome, but on the contrary does great good. Poverty has supplied the world with most of the kings it boasts of. Palaces have not cradled the kings of thought, service, and achievement. What greatest poet had luxury ...

— A Hero and Some Other Folks • William A. Quayle

... soil of Rome absorbed the blood of these apostolic martyrs. [161:2] It was not strange, therefore, that the Roman Church was soon regarded with peculiar respect by all the disciples throughout the Empire. As time passed on, it increased rapidly in numbers and in affluence; and circumstances, which properly possessed nothing more than an historic interest, began to be urged as arguments in favour of its claims to pre-eminence. At first these claims assumed no very definite form; and, at the termination of a century after the days of Paul and Peter, they amounted ...

— The Ancient Church - Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution • W.D. [William Dool] Killen

... its destinies. The study of health is therefore the great study, and it will be found in all things accordant with those loftier truths taught by the Great Physician. Strangers of intelligence often remark that, with unbounded means of happiness, affluence for every reasonable want, security against every danger, and the high prerogatives of conscious and elevated freedom, we are still the most unhappy of the sons of Adam. They assert that we grow old before ...

— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 • Various

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