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Definition of Miserliness
1. Noun. Total lack of generosity with money.
Derivative terms: Miserly
Definition of Miserliness
1. Noun. The property of being miserly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Miserliness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Miserliness
Literary usage of Miserliness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Golden Words of a Sufi Sheikh: Revised Edition by M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (Ral.), M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (2006)
"With wisdom burn away the greed of your miserliness and show mercy and compassion
to all lives. If you share what you have with others, ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1915)
"Mental ability does not protect against miserliness, for there have been many
men of mental power far above the average who have suddenly lost interest in ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1915)
"Mental ability does not protect against miserliness, for there have been many
men of mental power far above the average who have suddenly lost interest in ..."
4. The Fortnightly Review (1866)
"Ruskin accuses her of miserliness ! " Sometimes I have thought her miserliness
intolerable ; in a gentian, for instance, the way she economises her ..."
5. Conduct and Its Disorders: Biologically Considered by Charles Arthur Mercier (1911)
"The cases in which parsimony is clearly excessive, and runs into miserliness,
are those in which a person's income or possessions are ..."
6. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"364. miserliness (mi'zer-li-nes), ». The state or quality of being a miser or of
miserly disposition or ... miserliness; penuriousness. [Obsolete or Scotch. ..."
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