Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an affluent manner; in abundance; abundantly.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb Abundantly; copiously.

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  • adverb In an affluent manner.

Etymologies

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affluent +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • He explains further to live affluently she must say not guilty; otherwise she will not live nor will Oliver even though he is falling in love with his pawn.

    The Juror-George Dawes Green « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2009

  • The leaders hide under the guise of being incapacitated because of foreign debt payment obligations, to shy away from their responsibilities and they allow the masses to wallow in abject poverty while they themselves live flamboyantly and affluently.

    WHY DEBT CANCELLATION FOR AFRICA? 2009

  • In equating "living well" with living affluently, capitalism has made it extremely difficult to demonstrate that freedom is more closely identified with personal autonomy than with affluence, with empowerment over life than with empowerment over things, with the emotional security that derives frmo a nourishing community life than with a material security that derives from the myth of a nature dominated by an all-mastering technology.

    Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: February 2006 Archives 2006

  • In equating "living well" with living affluently, capitalism has made it extremely difficult to demonstrate that freedom is more closely identified with personal autonomy than with affluence, with empowerment over life than with empowerment over things, with the emotional security that derives frmo a nourishing community life than with a material security that derives from the myth of a nature dominated by an all-mastering technology.

    Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: "Living Well" 2006

  • An unknowing observer might imagine them to be two couples and a single, free-floating female — attractive, middle-class Americans, affluently dressed in an understated way, in the prime of their lives.

    Soul Learner_Tobsha 2006

  • The two eldest, who were both in the bank, were quiet, sober men, who lived affluently and were married to religious wives, and brought up their children plentifully and piously.

    John Caldigate 2004

  • Now, as he arrived at dusk, he was surprised to see how well the Mccuens lived, which was much more affluently than he and Barbara had, or the Stuarts.

    Fat Tuesday Brown, Sandra, 1948- 1997

  • Opal brought the words out like little sharp points that seemed to glitter affluently as she spoke them.

    The City of Fire Grace Livingston Hill 1906

  • So, presently afterwards, in the sentence, "divina dignatio quæ dat omnibus affluenter et non improperat" (translated, "divine _authority_ which affluently and not precipitately gives to all"), though Mr. Hendrie might have perhaps been excused for not perceiving the transitive sense of _dignatio_ after _indignus_ in the previous text, which indeed, even when felt, is sufficiently difficult to render in

    On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859

  • The two eldest, who were both in the bank, were quiet, sober men, who lived affluently and were married to religious wives, and brought up their children plentifully and piously.

    John Caldigate Anthony Trollope 1848

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