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Definition of affluence:

  • (noun) abundant wealth;

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The rise from poverty to affluence, the removal of all cares and burdens from her mind, had merely fostered still greater ambitions.

Sir George spent a life of ease, pleasure, and affluence, at least never was long, nor much, exposed to want.

This will enable us to live in comfort, if not in affluence, and the rest of your engaging days can be peacefully spent in flying kites.

This you will see is dear; but I could make no better arrangement, for there is an unusual affluence of strangers this year.

Thousands of white bread-winners in the large cities would envy these Indians if they could behold their comparative affluence and their obviously contented state.

Many people of comparative affluence reside in the hills, where there are hotels and pleasure resorts of the most costly character.

If one has not the genuine article, no affluence of starch, no snow-drift of white-linen decency, will furnish any substitute.

Paul's, which, though a trifle at the time, eventually became, on the expiration of leases, a source of affluence to Parr in his old age.

And so they wandered forth among the flowers, to breathe the air that comes alike to the children of affluence and pinching want.

One had thirteen; and yet every thing about his house rather indicated poverty than affluence.

It had swept him and his family from a position of comparative affluence to one of misfortune and distress.

Think how sweet life is to those who have passed their days so long in affluence and honor.

One great man in a score may have been reared in affluence, but I doubt if the statistics would show so large a percentage.

There were three men of position, and importance, and affluence, each keenly interested in the development of their land, each asserting that what the land needed was white immigrants.

It had taken him some time to grasp the situation, and to understand that he was now free to live where he would, in a position of comfort, not to say affluence.

Until the early years of the present century no civilization had provided affluence for more than a small fraction of its population.

General affluence was a goal that was talked about and dreamed about, but there was no way to test its practical effects on the population as a whole.

People growing up in affluence, living above the rigors of poverty, asked questions about themselves, their society and the universe in which they lived.

And hearing all that his friends said, he answered with sorrow, 'I have nothing more to do with virtue, wealth, friendship, affluence, sovereignty, and enjoyments.

To this he replied, 'I am a poor nameless wretch; by your favor, and owing to you, I am arrived to such power, and with much ease and affluence I pass my days.

She is well provided for, conveniently accommodated, and has every thing to make her happy which love and affluence can give.

Multitudes of poor boys in popular fiction rise to affluence by the practice of the commercial virtues.

When I had last seen them, affluence, prosperity, and happiness, were the portion of us all.

Work was still plentiful three days a week, and he was unconscious he was not supporting his family in comparative affluence.

Hundreds of thousands of people have made a narrow escape from being ruined by sudden affluence.

In the sketch of her friendships and of her studies, we have seen the affluence of her intellect, and the deep tenderness of her woman's nature.

The old man's figure grew straighter and his step more firm as the conviction grew upon him that the company would soon return once again to its former condition of affluence.

"What right have I to ease and affluence," would he murmur to himself, "when innocence wanders in misery and rags?"

It is not for the rich to fly, because the country is suffering: let them share, in their relative proportion, the common lot; they owe it to the land that has elevated them to honor and affluence.

It is impossible for those that have only known affluence and prosperity, to judge rightly of themselves or others.

It is better to die with hunger, exempt from grief and fear, than to live in affluence with perturbation.

He believed implicitly that eventually he would make the "big strike" and live in affluence for the remainder of his life.

At twelve, or fourteen, the children are removed into the commercial world, and often acquire an affluence that enables them to support that foundation, which formerly supported them.

As the human body descends into the regions of sickness, much sooner than it can return into health; so a family can decline into poverty by hastier steps, than rise into affluence.

We cannot behold the distresses of man without compassion; but that distress which follows affluence, comes with double effect.

Brought up in quiet affluence rather than luxury, and living much with his protector, whom he knew but by the name of Ursula, his bearing was graceful, and his air that of the well-born.

Downey's; otherwise the dream of his affluence would have been chambers in Westminster or the Temple.

Affluence might give us respect in the eyes of the vulgar, but will not recommend us to the wise and good.

"I could draw," she writes, "such a picture of happiness that it would almost make me wish the overthrow of all our present schemes of future affluence and grandeur."

She has a diamond ring, and a watch and chain, worth a hundred pounds; so she must have been used to affluence.

Their excellence or superiority in attire becomes distinctive of affluence and ease, and of course procures respect, which, by a principle inherent in human nature, all persons seek to obtain.

She has fallen from a position of comparative affluence, lost her independence (I use the word in its practical worldly sense), and is doomed to toil for her daily bread.

I told him I had a dear child, who, while in affluence herself, would never suffer me to be in poverty.

That they should have such affluence as to give weight to their example and authority, is also desirable.

For the human race is not a race of isolated individuals, wandering and solitary; but it is so constituted that even in the affluence of all things.

He passes his evenings in a beautiful saloon, where the light is brilliant, yet tempered; where crimson curtains and a blazing fire speak at once of comfort and affluence of means.

How dearly have the West Indians paid for the short-lived affluence which the sugar cane conferred!

Winchester being one of the fixed markets or staples for wool appointed by King Edward, the city had risen in power and affluence above its neighbors.

And how many have we seen in a state of affluence at night, who have been ruined by gaming in the morning?

There he was living in affluence, married again, in his old age ... just like his former wife.

As frequently occurs, though it doesn't get into the biographies, she who had played a helpful role in adversity, could not withstand affluence.

Her paternal uncle, now in affluence, has often expressed a desire to have her with him, and, since my misfortunes, has written me, offering her a home in his family.

What was the reason why Egypt was for so many centuries the seat of affluence and power, but the Nile?

Prospect Park, the geographical center, a beautiful picture set in a great frame of architectural affluence.

Hysteria has been the basis of many a saint's reputation and likewise has aided many a physician into affluence.

Some few had, doubtless, realized those gorgeous dreams of affluence and greatness which first tempted them to leave their native land.

And were it not for the great change in her position, from absolute affluence to becoming the recipient of another's bounty, Edith would have been, if not quite happy, at least contented.

This race of literary characters, as we now find them, could not have appeared till the press had poured forth its affluence.

The rapid increase in new trades and vii new industrial systems afforded possibilities of immediate rise to affluence.

The pleasures which attend on affluence are too great, and too pleasing to youth, to be overlooked, except when under the influence of a livelier passion.

I have seen more of the world than most men of my age, and I have seen the advantages of affluence in their strongest light.

It is of the art of prolonging necessity, or rather of reconciling necessity with affluence and ease, for which we are going to search, that we may, by that means, reconcile affluence with industry.

The son of a man, who has arrived at a greater degree of affluence than that to which he was born, is generally brought up differently.

In such countries, scarcely any degree of general affluence would enable the laboring classes to eat animal food.

He was thus able to enjoy the last years of his life in affluence, and enjoy them he did, in spite of failing health.

Being in the flower and strength of his young manhood and blessed with affluence and the love of an accomplished wife, there seemed wanting nothing to make his home an earthly paradise.

His abode and manners afford evidence that he was once surrounded by comparative affluence and respectability.

My friend, however, was a man of some affluence, and very superior in all respects to the generality of his order.

He had a conviction that the want of most men was knowledge of a sort which brings wisdom rather than affluence.

He was married and settled, and contrary to the usual course of men who step with one stride into affluence, was living a life of usefulness which was rapidly making him a marked man in public esteem.

You need not be ignorant, that around you are hundreds of individuals who live in affluence upon the spoils of their industry.

A great charm in this part of the country, at least from a picturesque point of view, is the affluence of water.

Oh, my dear brother, forget the past and let us all unite in soothing the grief of one of the best hearts that heaven ever formed, whose wish was to place us all in affluence.

His brothers had found snug places in the army, and he and his mother lived together in affluence.

The condition of the tribe, as a whole, is not only far removed from hardship, but may even be said to be one of comparative affluence.

"It's the same way with books," put in the Bibliomaniac, an unfortunate being whose love of rare first editions had brought him down from affluence to boarding.

I foresaw the affluence of butterflies which had so impressed me at the outset, when the famous invasion occurred which was the origin of my experiments.

She lived in great affluence and independence, but made use of her privileges of fortune chiefly to secure to herself the command of her own time.

Both were looked upon as heirs to huge fortunes, and to both was offered the rather doubtful popularity that usually is granted to affluence.

Such formidable opposition shows that Croghan, from being an object of pity to his creditors, had risen to affluence as the head of a "trust."

Or, all riches are styled riches "of iniquity," i.e., of "inequality," because they are not distributed equally among all, one being in need, and another in affluence.

Benson has provided a careful and sympathetic study of a middle-class family who rise to affluence.

Observe, if you please, this vision lays no drawback on the garden's summer beauty and affluence.

On the one hand there were sharp misery, the loss of freedom, poverty and suffering for Polly: on the other, liberty and a generous degree of affluence.

Really, in all Tennyson's poems you will be surprised at the affluence of his reference to nature.

Having chicken for holidays happens all the time today, but back then, chicken on the menu was either a sign of affluence or that you lived on a farm and had your own chickens.

There lie the broad, still pools that hold the reserved affluence of the snow-peaks; thence might we see, glittering like diamond lances in the sun, the eternal snow-peaks themselves.

"I would not talk to him of the Rockingham party," he used to say, "but I love his knowledge, his genius, his diffusion and affluence of conversation."

He was not much past his majority when he was admitted as a partner to the firm; and now he stands at the head of the well-known house, a man of affluence, intelligence, and distinction.

Louis from the beginning, where they lived in affluence and honor for seventy years, and where their descendants still reside.

Since his rise to affluence one of them had dared to speak to him, but she would never do it again.

Before his suit had passed through its last forms, the father of his wife, who at the time of their marriage lived in great affluence, became a bankrupt.

When the feast of Easter came there was such an affluence of people to this city of miracles that old men thought that the days of the ancient mysteries had returned.

The story of his struggle to affluence is not much different in basic outlines from that of any average, self-made man; differing vastly in the character of the man.

To avoid a comparative poverty, which her affection and her society would have deprived of all its horrors, I have, by raising myself to affluence, lost every thing that could make it a blessing.

He estimated too highly the agency of affluence, in raising the moral sentiments; but in promoting external decency, it has considerable power.

They had barely crossed the threshold of this treasure-house, to find themselves rich men; what possibilities of affluence might be theirs when they had fully exploited their possessions?

It was their whole fortune, and invaluable to them; the nest-egg by which, with industry, their children were to rise to affluence.

Some future day, when America shall have become wealthy, and New York the abode of affluence and ease, what taste may not be lavished on the banks of this noble river!

The people observed, moreover, that from being, like his neighbors, a small farmer of limited possessions, he rose rapidly to what, on the frontier, was considered affluence.