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noun

Wealth n.

Weal; welfare; prosperity; good. (Obs.) "Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth."

Large possessions; a comparative abundance of things which are objects of human desire; esp., abundance of worldly estate; affluence; opulence; riches. "I have little wealth to lose." "Each day new wealth, without their care, provides." "Wealth comprises all articles of value and nothing else."

(Econ.)

(a)

In the private sense, all property which has a money value.

(b)

In the public sense, all objects, esp. material objects, which have economic utility.

(c)

Those energies, faculties, and habits directly contributing to make people industrially efficient; in this sense, specifically called personal wealth.

Active wealth. See under Active.

Synonyms: Riches; affluence; opulence; abundance.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Wealth" Quotes from Famous Books

... is it can be hoped for in a change, which we have not allready? Is it liberty? The sun looks not on a people more free then we are from all oppression. Is it wealth? Hundreds of examples shew us that industry and thrift in a short time may bring us to as high a degree of it, as the country and our conditions are yet capable of: Is it securely to enjoy this wealth when gotten? ...

— Virginia Under Charles I And Cromwell, 1625-1660 • Wilcomb E. Washburn

... to situation, he invented a great wealth of nicknames, he conceived enmities and made friends—but none so richly satisfying as Parsons. He was frequently but mildly and discursively in love, and sometimes he thought of that girl who had given him a yellow-green apple. He had an idea, amounting to a flattering certainty, ...

— The History of Mr. Polly • H. G. Wells

... allowed him to scold her from the pulpit in a smaller way—once it was about an expensive dress she had worn—not mentioning her by name, you know; but all the people are quite aware that it is meant for her, because only one person of her wealth or position belongs to the Baptist ...

— A Laodicean • Thomas Hardy

... in the annals of all slave-holding countries. The fact that the engages were indentured only for three years made no difference with men whose sole object was to use up every available resource in the pursuit of wealth. Bad treatment, chagrin, and scurvy destroyed many of them. The French writers accused the English of treating their engages worse than any other nation, as they retained them for seven years, at the end of which time ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 59, September, 1862 • Various

... / "Mickle wealth I give to you, If my will in this matter / right faithfully ye do, And bear what tidings send I / home unto our country. I'll make you rich in treasure / and fair ...

— The Nibelungenlied - Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original • trans. by George Henry Needler

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