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Definition of Impecuniousness

1. Noun. A state of lacking money.

Definition of Impecuniousness

1. Noun. The property of being impecunious. ¹

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Definition of Impecuniousness

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Impecuniousness

Literary usage of Impecuniousness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Summary of the Law of Torts, Or, Wrongs Independent of Contract by Arthur Underhill, Hubert Stuart Moore (1900)
"Lingen, 8 LTNS 800); or insolvency, or impecuniousness (Met. Saloon Omnibus Co. v. ... NS 602) ; or even of past impecuniousness (Cox \. ..."

2. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1921)
"... masses of town population with scarcely any property at all, men neither serfs nor slaves, but held to their daily work by their utter impecuniousness. ..."

3. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1905)
"This perennial impecuniousness of the Spanish treasury was at this time accentuated by Queen Elizabeth's seizure at Plymouth, where they had sought refuge, ..."

4. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"This perennial impecuniousness of the Spanish treasury was at this time accentuated by Queen Elizabeth's seizure at Plymouth, where they had sought refuge, ..."

5. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1902)
"They offended the fastidious aristocrats with whom he associated, and combined with his impecuniousness to make him seem unsuitable for a great place. ..."

6. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1883)
"... And cheeks gone pale which some short years ago Glowed red and brown midst Henley's strain and stress ; Means sudden partings, impecuniousness. ..."

7. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"They offended the fastidious aristocrats with whom he associated, and combined with his impecuniousness to make him seem unsuitable for a great place. ..."

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