Both Uses of
prosperity
in
Sense and Sensibility
- Indeed, brother, your anxiety for our welfare and prosperity carries you too far.†
Chpt 33 *
- The whole of Lucy's behaviour in the affair, and the prosperity which crowned it, therefore, may be held forth as a most encouraging instance of what an earnest, an unceasing attention to self-interest, however its progress may be apparently obstructed, will do in securing every advantage of fortune, with no other sacrifice than that of time and conscience.†
Chpt 50
Definition:
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(prosperity) a state of doing well -- especially economically