单词 | affluency |
释义 | affluencyn. = affluence n. (in various senses). In early use also as a count noun. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > wealth > wealth or riches > [noun] wealc888 ednessa1200 richessea1200 richdomc1225 richesses?c1225 wealtha1275 richesc1275 winc1275 warison1297 wonea1300 merchandisec1300 aver1330 richesc1330 substancea1382 abundancec1384 suffisance1390 talenta1400 pelf?a1505 opulence?1518 wealthsa1533 money bag1562 capital1569 opulency1584 affluency1591 affluence1593 exuberance1675 nabobism1784 money1848 1591 C. Gibbon Work Worth Reading 2 An auncient Gentleman, who is adorned aswell with the affluencie of fortune, for great possessions, as with the excellencie of Nature. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 400 The perpetuall motion of the heart..by what engines and pullies,..what affluencies and refluencies this perpetuity is accomplished. 1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 99 Wealth and honour and affluency of all things. 1683 T. Tryon Way to Health 184 For in the midst of all their Affluencies..they are yet most miserable. 1739 H. Fielding Champion 16 Feb. (1741) I. 277 Persons in all Professions and Occupations..who have been reduced from an Affluency to Want. 1845 tr. G. Derzhaven in Lit. Emporium 1 106 The affluency of thy light divine, Pervading words, hath reached my bosom too. 1872 C. P. Ilsley Fortune's Changes ii. in Ballou's Monthly Mag. 36 545/1 Having fresh in her memory her late life of affluency and luxurious ease. 1904 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 34 264 A goat is generally killed on the day of the birth of a child by all Akikuyu of ordinary affluency. 1950 Life 19 June 39/1 The Shelton clan, whose members now live in country-squire affluency but have long been notorious as bootleggers. 2007 M. Donalson Hip Hop in Amer. Cinema iii. 73 Unlike Bulworth's affluency and privilege, Rabbit..fights the daily battles and indignities heaped upon the lower class. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1591 |
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