Both Uses of
affluent
in
The House of Mirth
- Affluence, unless stimulated by a keen imagination, forms but the vaguest notion of the practical strain of poverty.†
Chpt 1.7 *
- It was, in fact, characteristic of Carry that, while she actively gleaned her own stores from the fields of affluence, her real sympathies were on the other side—with the unlucky, the unpopular, the unsuccessful, with all her hungry fellow-toilers in the shorn stubble of success.†
Chpt 2.6
Definition:
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(affluent) a person who is financially well off