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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dives \Di"ves\, noun [L., rich.] The name popularly given to the rich man in our Lord's parable of the ''Rich Man and Lazarus'' (--Luke xvi. 19-31). Hence, a name for a rich worldling.
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