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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

... England was especially a fruitful field for these missionaries. The great manufacturing towns were then at their worst, containing people desperately ignorant, superstitious, and so deeply poverty-stricken that the mere idea of owning land of their own seemed to them the height of affluence. Three years after the arrival of the missionaries the general conference reported 4019 converts in England alone. These were good material in the hands of strong, fanatical, or unscrupulous leaders. They were religious enthusiasts, of ...

— The Forty-Niners - A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado • Stewart Edward White

... she answered shortly, my appearance possibly not approximating the standard of affluence ...

— The People of the Abyss • Jack London

... Marechal Saxe. The portraits of some of these great gentlemen and of many another of her illustrious ancestors hung upon the walls of the salons and galleries of this mansion in the rue St. Honore. The very house bespoke the pride of race and generations of affluence, and was only equalled in magnificence by the Noailles hotel near by. As Mr. Calvert looked about him at the splendor of this mansion, which had been in the d'Azay family for near two centuries and a half; at the spacious apartment with its shining marquetry ...

— Calvert of Strathore • Carter Goodloe

... opulence, wealth, affluence; abundance, profusion; luxuriance, sumptuousness, costliness, elegance, fertility, fecundity. Antonyms: ...

— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming

... requital for this great and bitter sacrifice, which makes me daily curse my own folly in having trusted living man. But I ask of you, madam, who, secured from the effects of Captain Rothesay's insolvency, have, I understand, been left in comfort, if not affluence—I ask, is it right, in honour and in honesty, that I, a clergyman with a small stipend, should suffer the penalty of a deed wherein, with all charity to the dead, I cannot but think I ...

— Olive - A Novel • Dinah Maria Craik, (AKA Dinah Maria Mulock)

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