opulence

plural opulences

1. countableuncountableWealth.
2. countableuncountableAbundance, bounty, profusion.
3. countableuncountableOstentatious display of wealth and luxury; plushness.

   The most meritorious persons have always … been removed from opulence.

   C. J. Fox

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   There in full Opulence a Banker dwelt, Who all the Joys and Pangs of Riches felt; His Side-board glitter’d with imagin’d Plate; And his proud Fancy held a vaſt Eſtate.

   1721, John Gay, “A Panegyrical Epiſtle to Mr. Thomas Snow, Goldſmith, near Temple-Bar; Occaſion’d by his Buying and Selling the Third South-Sea Subſcriptions, taken in by the Directors at a Thouſand per Cent”, in Miſcellanies, volume 3, published 1733, page 239