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ˈwastefulness
[-ness.]
1. The quality of being wasteful; prodigality in expenditure; want of economy.
1551T. Wilson Logic ii. I viij b, Liberalitie is a vertue. Therfore liberalitie maie not be called wastefulnes. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 212 Even so be these wretches more odious..who by their miserable parsimonie..doe mischiefe, than those who by their riot and wastfulnesse be hurtfull to a common-weale. a1768Secker Serm. (1770) III. 251 Wastefulness also, and even mere Negligence, approach to the same Sin. 1839Dickens Nich. Nick. xxxiv, I really cannot afford to encourage him in all his wastefulness. 1884Harper's Mag. Oct. 781/2 A lamentable wastefulness of the public funds.
†2. The state of being waste or void. Obs. rare.
1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 195 Having taken away altogether that boundless wastfulness beyond the world, we are no whit careful, about the light or darkness of it. |