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Definition of Prodigality
1. Noun. The trait of spending extravagantly.
Generic synonyms: Improvidence, Shortsightedness
Derivative terms: Extravagant, Prodigal
2. Noun. Excessive spending.
Generic synonyms: Dissipation, Waste, Wastefulness
Derivative terms: Extravagant, Lavish, Prodigal
Definition of Prodigality
1. n. Extravagance in expenditure, particularly of money; excessive liberality; profusion; waste; -- opposed to frugality, economy, and parsimony.
Definition of Prodigality
1. Noun. wasteful extravagance ¹
2. Noun. lavish generosity ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Prodigality
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Prodigality
Literary usage of Prodigality
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mornings in the College Chapel: Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal by Francis Greenwood Peabody (1898)
"There may be prodigality of waste, but there shall be prodigality of reproduction.
... Such is the prodigality of Providence. And it comes close to many ..."
2. Aquinas Ethicus: Or, The Moral Teaching of St. Thomas. A Translation of the by Thomas, Joseph Rickaby (1896)
"Is prodigality a sin ? R. prodigality is opposed to covetousness as superabundance
to defect. But by those extremes the good of virtue is destroyed; ..."
3. Aquinas Ethicus: Or, The Moral Teaching of St. Thomas. A Translation of the by Thomas, Joseph Rickaby (1896)
"Is prodigality a sin ? R. prodigality is opposed to covetousness as superabundance
to defect. But by those extremes the good of virtue is destroyed; ..."
4. Advocate of Peace by American Peace Society (1864)
"As much in four years as England herself, BO long a bugbear to political economists,
and warning against national prodigality, succeeded in accumulating in ..."
5. International Civil and Commercial Law as Founded Upon Theory, Legislation by Friedrich Meili (1905)
"The view might be therefore supported that persons interdicted for prodigality
may legally obligate themselves when out of the jurisdiction of interdiction; ..."
6. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham (1907)
"From what has been said, it appears that there prodigality cannot be any other
offences, on the part of a trustee, by which dismissed to a beneficiary can ..."
7. The Method of Evolution: A Review of the Present Attitude of Science Toward by Herbert William Conn (1900)
"The prodigality of nature ... Struggle for Existence The struggle for existence
follows from the prodigality of nature, but it is difficult or impossible ..."
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