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- noun Plural form of
thriving .
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Examples
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"Well, Margaret and Oliver," said Master Freake, "this is no time to be giving you lessons in the way the great world wags that neither knows nor cares of outs and ins and party shufflings, but is busy with rents and crops, and incomings and outgoings, and debts and credits, and wivings and thrivings.
The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough
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Owny Doyl 1 0 0 "Well done, Owny na Coppal -- you deserve to prosper for you make good use of your thrivings.
Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life Samuel Lover 1832
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