All 5 Uses of
prosperity
in
Great Expectations
- He was a prosperous old bachelor, and his open window looked into a prosperous little garden and orchard, and there was a prosperous iron safe let into the wall at the side of his fireplace, and I did not doubt that heaps of his prosperity were put away in it in bags.†
Chpt 19
- As a matter of course, they fawned upon me in my prosperity with the basest meanness.†
Chpt 25 *
- I entertain a conviction, based upon large experience, that if in the days of my prosperity I had gone to the North Pole, I should have met somebody there, wandering Esquimaux or civilized man, who would have told me that Pumblechook was my earliest patron and the founder of my fortunes.†
Chpt 28
- Had I given Joe no reason to doubt my constancy, and to think that in prosperity I should grow cold to him and cast him off?†
Chpt 57
- This reminded me of the wonderful difference between the servile manner in which he had offered his hand in my new prosperity, saying, "May I?" and the ostentatious clemency with which he had just now exhibited the same fat five fingers.†
Chpt 58
Definition:
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(prosperity) a state of doing well -- especially economically