单词 | miserliness |
释义 | miserlinessn. The quality or condition of being miserly; niggardliness, meanness, parsimoniousness. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [noun] > miserliness chincheryc1405 muckeringc1430 gnedeshipc1480 wretchedness1488 miserableness1522 misery1531 snudging1553 sordidity1584 snudgery1599 miserliness1645 nabalism1853 miserhood1867 miserdom1887 1645 J. Ussher Body of Divinitie 304 Frugality without liberality [degenerateth] into sordid miserlinesse. 1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss I. i. xii. 227 In old-fashioned times, an ‘independence’ was hardly ever made without a little miserliness. 1865 G. H. Lewes in Fortn. Rev. 2 692 Economy is rejection of whatever is superfluous; it is not Miserliness. 1958 R. K. Narayan Guide v. 66 He'd suddenly show every symptom of miserliness and behave like an auditor. 1989 A. C. Amor William Holman Hunt vi. 91 He quickly gained a reputation among the Brothers for miserliness and hard bargaining. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1645 |
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