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opulence|ˈɒpjʊləns|
[ad. L. opulentia, f. opulens, -ent-em or opulent-us: see opulent and -ence. Cf. F. opulence (R. Estienne 1549).]
Wealth, riches, affluence.
c1510Barclay Mirr. Gd. Manners (1570) D iiij, No giftes nor treasure of greatest opulence. 1668Wilkins Real Char. ii. viii. 201 Riches, Wealth, Opulence, Pelf, Means, Fortunes, Estate. 1742Young Nt. Th. vi. 529 How Few can rescue Opulence from Want!.. Who lives to Fancy, never can be rich. 1776Adam Smith W.N. ii. iii. (1869) I. 349 It is this effort..which has maintained the progress of England towards opulence. a1806C. J. Fox in Emerson Cond. Life Wks. (Bohn) II. 419 The most meritorious public services have always been performed by persons in a condition of life removed from opulence. 1838Thirlwall Greece xxi. III. 203 Citizens who had more recently risen to opulence.
b. fig. Abundance of resources or power.
1791Mackintosh Vindic. Gallicæ Wks. 1846 III. 4 Argument..aided by the most pathetic and picturesque description, speaks the opulence and the powers of that mind. 1847Emerson Repr. Men, Plato Wks. (Bohn) I. 297 He has that opulence which furnishes, at every turn, the precise weapon he needs.
c. transf. ‘Wealth’, abundance (e.g. of hair); plumpness of person [from mod. Fr.].
1878B. Taylor Deukalion iii. vi. 129 The loose golden opulence of her hair These clouds untangle. 1896A. Morrison Child Jago 131 Leary, in his heavy opulence of flesh. |