Dives

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dives \Di"ves\, n. [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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