prosperitie

English

Noun

prosperitie (countable and uncountable, plural prosperities)

Obsolete spelling of prosperity.
- 1587, Raphael Holinshed et al., “The Description of Ireland”, in Chronicles of England, Scotlande and Irelande‎^[1], page 26:
  […] the estate of that flourishing towne was turned arsie versie, topside the otherwaie, and from abundance of prosperitie quite exchanged to extreame penurie.
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 318, column 2:
  So ſhall you haue a ſhorter iourney to your deſires, by the meanes I ſhall then haue to preferre them. And the impediment moſt profitably remoued, without the which there were no expectation of our proſperitie.
- 1618, Joseph Hall, Contemplations upon the Principall Passages of the Holy Story‎^[2], volume 4, London: Henry Fetherstone, page 42:
  it is hard not to ouer-ioy in a sudden prosperitie, and, to vse happinesse is no lesse difficult, then to forbeare it
- 1622, John Downame, chapter IX, in A Guide to Godlynesse: or, A Treatise of A Christian Life, page 60:
  So the Iewes, when they ſecurely bleſſed themſelues in their proſperitie,and drowned the voyce of the Lords Heralds, denouncing warre, with their lowder crie of peace, peace, were vanquiſhed by their enemies, and led into a miſerable captiuitie.