affluency

English

Noun

affluency (countable and uncountable, plural affluencies)

1. Obsolete form of affluence.
   • 1711 December 24 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “THURSDAY, December 13, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 247; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:

     this little instrument of loquacity, and conveying into it a perpetual affluency of animal spirits.

     The spelling has been modernized.

References

• “affluency”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.