All 3 Uses of
opulent
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- One perceived him to be a personage of marked influence and authority; and, especially, you could feel just as certain that he was opulent as if he had exhibited his bank account, or as if you had seen him touching the twigs of the Pyncheon Elm, and, Midas-like, transmuting them to gold.†
Chpt 4 *opulent = magnificent and luxurious
- But I wonder that the late Judge—being so opulent, and with a reasonable prospect of transmitting his wealth to descendants of his own—should not have felt the propriety of embodying so excellent a piece of domestic architecture in stone, rather than in wood.†
Chpt 21
- I could fancy that, when I was a child, or a youth, that portrait had spoken, and told me a rich secret, or had held forth its hand, with the written record of hidden opulence.†
Chpt 21opulence = magnificence or luxury
Definitions:
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(1)
(opulent) magnificent and luxurious -- usually expensive
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, opulent can reference a rich abundance of something; or that someone is rich.