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Definition
a person who is financially well off
- She doubted the sincerity of this assurance no more than he had doubted it himself, and she thought of it for her daughters' sake with satisfaction, though as for herself she was persuaded that a much smaller provision than 7000L would support her in affluence.Chapter 3 (14% in)
- Born to the prospect of such affluence!Chapter 37 (90% in)
- To avoid a comparative poverty, which her affection and her society would have deprived of all its horrors, I have, by raising myself to affluence, lost every thing that could make it a blessing.Chapter 44 (24% in)
There are no more uses of "affluent" in Sense and Sensibility.
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