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thriftiness|ˈθrɪftɪnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The state or quality of being thrifty.
†1. Thriving condition, prosperity. Obs. rare—1.
c1530Proper Dyaloge in Rede me, etc. (Arb.) 137 They haue brought the lande to beggery And all thryftynes clene awaye swepte.
2. The quality of being frugal or saving; economy, good husbandry: cf. thrift n.1 3.
1552Elyot Dict., Frugalitas..thriftines. 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 225 A minde..contented with perseuerance, with frugalitie or thriftinesse. 1645Ussher Body Div. (1647) 304 Parsimony or thriftiness; whereby we honestly keep and preserve our goods. 1782Knox Ess. lxxxvii. II. 22 The qualities distinguished by the homely titles of thriftiness and good housewifery. 1826F. Reynolds in Life & Times II. 83 [He was] a compound of liberality and thriftiness. 1884Brit. Almanac & Comp. 65 The actual increase of national thriftiness. |