flourishing

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More inland suburbs are chiefly devoted to the mining that has suffered so many vicissitudes--flourishing, then decadent, and now flourishing again.

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  1. Vigorous; prosperous; thriving. The Gardyn is alweys grene and florisshing, alle the cesouns of the Zeer, als wel in Wyntre es in Somer. Mandeville, Travels, p, 54. Wealth and plenty in a land where Justice raignes not is no argument of a flourishing State, but of a neerness rather to ruin or commotion. Milton, Eikonoklastes, ix. The old city [Alexandria] was, without doubt, in a flourishing condition, when the trade of the East Indies was carried on that way by the Venetians. Pococke, Description of the East, I. 7.

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  • Recreation and hospitality is flourishing, and there is a pride about the riverside villages, which have lost traditional industries - farming, fishing, boatbuilding and market gardening - and are now trying to find a new way of life. —  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • "We are flourishing, and Jeff has had a lot to do with that." —  The Daily Mining Gazette
  • Some kinds of sex don't contribute to human flourishing --- e.g., abusive sex. —  dangerous idea
  • Hence, when you said that human flourishing is a priori good, I assumed that you meant that human flourishing is either analytically or synthetically a priori good, and I didn't see how it was either. —  dangerous idea
  • • Vietnam: With blog use flourishing, the government has established a cyber-police force to keep an eye on "subversive" content. —  CNET News.com
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