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Penuriousness

Penurious \Pe*nu"ri*ous\, a. [From Penury.]

  1. Excessively sparing in the use of money; sordid; stingy; miserly. ``A penurious niggard of his wealth.''
    --Milton.

  2. Not bountiful or liberal; scanty.

    Here creeps along a poor, penurious stream.
    --C. Pitt.

  3. Destitute of money; suffering extreme want. [Obs.] ``My penurious band.''
    --Shak.

    Syn: Avaricious; covetous; parsimonious; miserly; niggardly; stingy. See Avaricious. [1913 Webster]
    -- Pe*nu"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- Pe*nu"ri*ous*ness, n.

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penuriousness

n. The quality of being penurious.

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penuriousness

  1. n. a state of lacking money [syn: impecuniousness, pennilessness]

  2. a disposition to be niggardly with money

Usage examples of "penuriousness".

I always had a dread of penuriousness, and I delighted myself at the thought that M.

It is not absolutely certain that the satisfaction of knowing that an entail had been created, by letters patent dated back to December 1820, including the estates of Anzy, of La Baudraye, and of La Hautoy, was any compensation to Dinah on finding herself reduced to unconfessed penuriousness till 1835.