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Parsimoniousness

noun
1.
Extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily.  Synonyms: parsimony, penny-pinching, thrift.
2.
Extreme stinginess.  Synonyms: closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, tightfistedness, tightness.





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"Parsimoniousness" Quotes from Famous Books



... representation, that it would be degrading to them to take much thought about any thing but the beauty and fashion of their clothes; and that an anxiety on their part about the preservation of, to them, trifles would indicate meanness and parsimoniousness. Their office is to encourage trade by a lavish expenditure, conformable to the rank in life in which God has placed them. Happy are they if this wealth do not become a temptation too hard to be overcome! ...
— The Young Lady's Mentor - A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends • A Lady


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