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wealthiness Now rare.|ˈwɛlθɪnɪs| [f. wealthy a. + -ness.] Wealthy quality or condition; wealth.
a1513Fabyan Chron. iii. lvi. (1533) 20 This in tracte of tyme made hym welthy. And by meane of this welthynes ensued pryde. 1535Coverdale Job xxi. 13 They spend their dayes in welthynesse: but sodenly they go downe to hell. 1536Primer Eng. & Lat. (Rouen) 144 b, Verely I sayde in my welthynes I shall neuermore be mouyd. 1567Trial Treasure D iv b, You shall wante no kinde of welthines. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 7 marg., The Welthines of fische in Scotland. 1747Shenstone Let. to Graves 21 Sept., I almost hate the idea of wealthiness as much as the word. |