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Definition of affluence:

  • (noun) abundant wealth;

Sentence Examples:

A rich banker may be a man of affluence in his town.

The stamp of affluence in those days was the possession of a basin.

These properties, though few, were intended to signify boundless affluence and luxury.

They are not content merely to arrive at physical affluence.

Affluence and social security cannot satisfy.

I expected to place her in affluence, at least.

Kettle deserves affluence, and please the pigs she shall have it.

We receive from Paracelsus an impression of the affluence of youth.

There was a sense of metropolitan affluence in the very atmosphere.

He had a rude awakening from his dream of affluence, and it seems to have done him good.

All bore the aspect of the good old times, of a simple, patriarchal life with affluence.

Besides his affluence in topics, he had the liveliest fancy and most active imagination.

Last of all come the people of affluence and high social position.

Is not true piety of more importance than education, affluence or social distinction?

Paul would paint pictures, and support the whole household in affluence.'

More depends upon ourselves than upon the affluence of our surroundings.

She always thinks in royal terms of affluence.

The person that desire affluence and prosperity should honor them.

By following the duties of his own order, the Kshatriya acquires an extensive affluence.

"Surely, sir, in your present affluence, you must wish to see him again?"

An affluence of rare exotic flowers everywhere.

I might add, who has sacrificed ease and affluence to her tenderness for him?

He told me, lately, that 'four hundred a year and my pay was affluence.'

Why not accept my offer and lead a life of ease and affluence.

I did not say to affluence, for Canadians do not rate affluence by itself as success.

Does she know the value of affluence and a fair fame?

One young man is reared in affluence and luxury.

Whosoever attains thereto has attained to treasures of wealth and affluence.

Millicent was deeply impressed: this was indeed affluence.

This is the condition of the world, its honor, its dominion, its glory and affluence.

I am sorry to say, Sir Anthony, that my affluence over my niece is very small.

The sudden descent from affluence to poverty bore him to the grave.

The affluence of beauty of some of these is indeed marvelous.

There were every day, from morning till night, a vast affluence of well-dressed people.

The great talents of this orphan family raised them to affluence and distinction.

Some are born into an easy and sheltered affluence.

It meant luxury beyond my wildest dreams; a life of ease, affluence, and influence.

Reared in affluence, no pains had been spared with the daughter's education.

Delicately reared, familiar with the comforts of affluence, they resolutely abandoned all.

There was nothing exceptional in this comparative affluence.

This timely gift restored both families from poverty to affluence.

Love was in their eyes, joy in their voice, and affluence in their gait and bearing.

Ever since, he has lived here in great affluence, but alone, for men he despises.

Art, honor, wisdom, power, affluence, are spared not when death comes.

Then you don't know what it is to be reduced from affluence to poverty.

Calvin was educated in circumstances of ease and even affluence.

I trust you will return from Australia in a position of affluence.

They were rich people, noble people, born in affluence, nurtured in affluence.

He was the son of the Speaker, and came to honor and affluence by a happy chance.

He was born to affluence, independence, and the happiest prospects.

A doctor has to set up with a show of affluence.

His early home was one of a considerable degree of affluence.

They feel the poverty at the bottom of all the seeming affluence of the world.

Truly a small sum to stand between him and affluence.

He was born amid affluence, and received the best educational advantages the age afforded.

They often betrayed him by their affluence and wonderful readiness to meet his call.

He was born in affluence and of a royal family.

He stood lost in the realization of sudden affluence.

With all my affluence, when my woes are weigh'd, Envy will own the purchase dearly paid.

The prospect of getting ten made him feel like a man of affluence.

A happier pair could not be found in the halls of affluence.

Behold me, Lady Mary Pratt, restoring the family to a condition of affluence.

If he could rise to such affluence, why shouldn't Jim?

I have already told my reader that my youth was not passed in affluence.

And so we see here universal prosperity and affluence in our smiling country.

It would never have occurred to me to say feudal, I admire your affluence.

She could sing him if not into affluence at least into ease.

Lewis was reduced from affluence to poverty.

In those days, I first saw Rachel, then in the full affluence of her genius.

A man's hands will give him sustenance, not affluence.

Here it is affluence and age, there it is beauty and poverty.

Affluence and elegance, popular favor, and the full sunshine of prosperity.

Such an offer meant affluence to a needy household like ours, in those days especially.

She has the open-handed, easy affluence of a mining city.

Both were educated in affluence, and both had to face unprepared the hardships of life.

Under Baker's friendship he came to what for such a person was affluence and independence.

He lived there in the affluence of a rich farmer.

The road is still open for you to affluence and credit.

Perhaps you do not know that her grandfather is a man of affluence.

If by career they meant affluence, they were wholly right in saying it was all before him.

How gladly would she have sacrificed her affluence to enjoy poverty with him!

For a young man of twenty-four years without a family this was affluence in those days.

A continuance of our present brilliant affluence might bridge it over.

She rapidly sank from affluence to extreme poverty.

See the contempt of the very wretches who roll in affluence from our labors.

Quality varied as well as design, depending on the affluence of the officer concerned.

What affluence in powders and perfumes and colors!

Providence has blessed you with ease and affluence far more than you need for daily bread.

I found myself humbled at the sight of so much greatness and affluence.

She married a man of rank and affluence, and did her part in the gay world.

This would raise her to affluence, nay, to splendor, once again.

He saw a tall, well set up man who had every appearance of affluence.

They live in the west now and could live in affluence if they so desired.

Herbert, a lady of good family, with whom he lived in comfort, if not in affluence.

He could even buy a position of some power, and of greater affluence.

How to reconstruct these industries and restore a portion of our ancient affluence?

This, I take to be prosperity; anything more would be affluence, which makes trouble.

The affluence of his imagination was never checked by the emptiness of his purse.

Where affluence was to-night bankruptcy would be to-morrow.

I wondered at his affluence in possessing a house and lot.