flourishment

plural flourishments

1. countableuncountableThe act or state of flourishing.

   Aristotle believed in human flourishment or happiness as do all Christians.

   2005, Daniel J. Harrington, Harrington S J Daniel, James F. Keenan, Jesus and Virtue Ethics: Building Bridges Between New Testament Studies and Moral Theology, →ISBN, page 43

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   Such conditions are unfavourable for the installation and flourishment of a fauna and flora over longer periods of time.

   1985, Detlef Mader, Aspects of Fluvial Sedimentation in the Lower Triassic Buntsandstein of Europe, →ISBN

   It almost looked, Donald decided finally, as if Winchester cared more for what happened to her boys in afterlife than for her own flourishment. Perhaps, after five hundred years of flourishment, that was a justifiable attitude, but it certainly was a little unusual.

   2013, A. G. Macdonell, England, Their England, →ISBN, page 240