affluentlyadv.

1631 ‘A. B.’ tr. L. Lessius Rawleigh his Ghost i. 8 The wicked to gouerne & sway all, to liue affluently & abundantly in all riches [L. opibus abundare, voluptatibus & honoribus circumfluere], to insult ouer the vertuous.

1659 tr. R. Fludd Mosaicall Philos. iv. iii. 64 The same spirit being affluently infused on Christ, Moses, Elijah, and other Saints upon earth, did effect wonders upon the earth.

a1680 T. Goodwin Of Object Justifying Faith ii. ii. viii. 126 in Wks. (1697) IV That Beauty, Glory, Goodness..which he believes to abound most affluently in God.

1749 Scots Mag. Apr. 184/1 The same time and money applied..might enable a man of reasonable parts..to live more affluently, and save more.

1768 J. Gray Refl. Inland Navigation in J. Phillips Hist. Inland Navigation 40 The people might live easily, were the number of letters diminished two-thirds; they could not however be said to live affluently.

1840 Universalist & Ladies' Repository Mar. 362/1 There is not much opportunity given us at present to abound, or live affluently, but duty prompts us to live humble.

1870 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. to 1688 VII. lxxv. 261 This deputation was not affluently adorned by rank and station.

1915 Mediator June 25 Thanks to the sociological impertinence of the idly affluent and the affluently idle the class has been encouraged rather than discouraged in its parasitical procedure.

1949 Amer. Jrnl. Econ. & Sociol. 9 63 The cities could meet the costs of growing pains and live more or less affluently on property tax collections.

2008 A. Bandura in S. J. Lopez Positive Psychol. ix. 183 Those living under impoverished conditions in Calcutta may not differ all that much in satisfaction with their lives from those living affluently amidst the balmy palms in Beverley Hills.