Both Uses
prosper
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Winter Dreams
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- They persuaded Dexter several years later to pass up a business course at the State university—his father, prospering now, would have paid his way—for the precarious advantage of attending an older and more famous university in the East, where he was bothered by his scanty funds.†
p. 4.1 *prospering = doing well
- They talked of his university, which she had visited frequently during the past two years, and of the near-by city which supplied Sherry Island with its patrons, and whither Dexter would return next day to his prospering laundries.†
p. 8.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(prosper) to do well or to grow stronger
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)