Resplendence vs Opulence - What's the difference?
resplendence | opulence |
The property of being, or that which causes something to be, resplendent.
* Milton
wealth
abundance, bounty, profusion
Who all the Joys and Pangs of Riches felt;
His Side-board glitter’d with imagin’d Plate;
And his proud Fancy held a va?t E?tate. * C. J. Fox: *: The most meritorious persons have always … been removed from opulence .
As nouns the difference between resplendence and opulence
is that resplendence is the property of being, or that which causes something to be, resplendent while opulence is wealth.resplendence
English
Noun
- Son! thou in whom my glory I behold / In full resplendence , heir of all my might.
opulence
English
Noun
(-)Quotations
* 1721 , (John Gay), A Panegyrical Epistle to Mr. Thomas Snow, Gold?mith, near Temple-Bar; Occa?ion’d by his Buying and Selling the Third South-Sea Sub?criptions, taken in by the Directors at a Thou?and per Cent'', published in 1733 in ''Miscellanies , volume 3,page 239: *: 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 va?t E?tate. * C. J. Fox: *: The most meritorious persons have always … been removed from opulence .