prosperity

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Consequently his prosperity is their prosperity, and his ruin would be an irretrievable disaster, not a benefit, to them.

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  1. noun The condition of being prosperous.

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  • Their prosperity is our prosperity; our prosperity is theirs. —  F ;SF; - vol 097 issue 04-05 - October-November 1999
  • Tell the miners from me that I shall promote their interests to the best of my ability because their prosperity is the prosperity of the nation; and we shall prove in a few years that we are the treasury of the world HANG ON—NOT HANG On April 11, 1865, Mr. Lincoln spoke out of his study window to an immense and joyous crowd. —  The Lincoln Story Book
  • "And I believe some of our prosperity was an illusion." —  RGJ.com - Latest News
  • Our many freedoms and our prosperity are the result of centuries of endeavor. —  Spero News
  • Warren asked God to "forgive us" for a series of shortcomings: "when we focus on ourselves … when we fight each other … when we think our prosperity is ours alone" and when we forget to care for our fellow man, and for the earth. —  Biblical Recorder
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  1. from Middle English prosperitic, from Old French prosperite, prosprete, French prospérité = Spanish prosperidad = Portuguese prosperidade = Italian prosperità, from Latin prosperita(t-)s, good fortune, from prosper, favorable, fortunate: see prosperous.
 

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