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/rˈɪtʃəz/ /rˈɪtʃɪz/ Listen

noun

Riches n. pl.

That which makes one rich; an abundance of land, goods, money, or other property; wealth; opulence; affluence. "Riches do not consist in having more gold and silver, but in having more in proportion, than our neighbors."

That which appears rich, sumptuous, precious, or the like. "The riche of heaven's pavement, trodden gold." Note: Richesse, the older form of this word, was in the singular number. The form riches, however, is plural in appearance, and has now come to be used as a plural. "Against the richesses of this world shall they have misease of poverty." "In one hour so great riches is come to nought." "And for that riches where is my deserving?"

Synonyms: Wealth; opulence; affluence; wealthiness; richness; plenty; abundance.

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"Riches" Quotes from Famous Books

... person say to His people, as He did to the young ruler: "Sell all that ye have, and give to the poor, and go up and down the earth preaching the gospel," it would be the duty of every rich Christian to strip himself of all his riches, and of every poor Christian to make himself yet poorer, and of the whole Church to adopt the same course that was taken by the early Christians, who "had all things common, and sold their possessions and goods and ...

— Sermons to the Natural Man • William G.T. Shedd

... Horus. This was an occasion for the Pharaoh to bring to remembrance all the great exploits he had performed during his reign—his triumphs over the Libyans and over the peoples of the sea, and the riches he had lavished upon the gods: at the end of the enumeration he exhorted those who were present to observe the same fidelity towards the son which they had observed towards the father, and to serve the new sovereign as valiantly ...

— History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 5 (of 12) • G. Maspero

... colonial questions had any interest for Bismarck. He was, as he repeatedly asserted almost to the day of his death, 'no colony man.' But the time was at hand when he was to be forced out of this attitude. For already the riches of tropical Africa were beginning to attract ...

— The Expansion of Europe - The Culmination of Modern History • Ramsay Muir

... fact was that the Rev. Amos Barton, on his last visit to Mrs. Patten, had urged her to enlarge her promised subscription of twenty pounds, representing to her that she was only a steward of her riches, and that she could not spend them more for the glory of God than by giving a heavy subscription towards the rebuilding of Shepperton Church—a practical precept which was not likely to smooth the way to her acceptance of his theological doctrine. ...

— Scenes of Clerical Life • George Eliot

... than this. To correct abuses of the interests of the farmers from whose fields warehousemen in combination with corporate common carriers had been drawing riches, it declared all elevators or structures where grain or other property was stored for a compensation, public warehouses, and expressly directed the General Assembly to pass laws for the government of warehouses, for the inspection ...

— Fifty Years of Public Service • Shelby M. Cullom

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