Both Uses of
prosperity
in
Jane Eyre
- Because I disliked you too fixedly and thoroughly ever to lend a hand in lifting you to prosperity.†
p. 275.2 *prosperity = a state of doing well -- especially economically
- The air of the moors, the freedom of home, the dawn of prosperity, acted on Diana and Mary's spirits like some life-giving elixir: they were gay from morning till noon, and from noon till night.†
p. 455.8