All 4 Uses of
affluent
in
Mansfield Park
- I will parody them— Blest Knight! whose dictatorial looks dispense To Children affluence, to Rushworth sense.†
Chpt 17 *
- Though their caution may prove eventually unnecessary, it was kindly meant; and of this you may be assured, that every advantage of affluence will be doubled by the little privations and restrictions that may have been imposed.†
Chpt 32
- Her disposition was naturally easy and indolent, like Lady Bertram's; and a situation of similar affluence and do-nothingness would have been much more suited to her capacity than the exertions and self-denials of the one which her imprudent marriage had placed her in.†
Chpt 39
- She is a cold-hearted, vain woman, who has married entirely from convenience, and though evidently unhappy in her marriage, places her disappointment not to faults of judgment, or temper, or disproportion of age, but to her being, after all, less affluent than many of her acquaintance, especially than her sister, Lady Stornaway, and is the determined supporter of everything mercenary and ambitious, provided it be only mercenary and ambitious enough.†
Chpt 44
Definition:
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(affluent) a person who is financially well off