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Definition
the state of doing well — especially economically
- Indeed, brother, your anxiety for our welfare and prosperity carries you too far.Chapter 33 (82% in)
- 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.Chapter 50 (41% in)
There are no more uses of "prosperity" in Sense and Sensibility.
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