All 3 Uses of
prosperity
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- He had forty kopecks, and that was all, all that was left after so many years of prosperity!†
Chpt 8 *
- Though our part of the country had grown poorer, the landowners had gone away, and trade had got worse, yet the grocery stores flourished as before, every year with increasing prosperity; there were plenty of purchasers for their goods.†
Chpt 8
- A petty knave, a toady and buffoon, of fairly good, though undeveloped, intelligence, he was, above all, a moneylender, who grew bolder with growing prosperity.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(prosperity) a state of doing well -- especially economically