impecuniosity

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impecuniosity (countable and uncountable, plural impecuniosities)

The state of being impecunious; impecuniousness
- 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 32, in The History of Pendennis. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
  “Impecuniosity will do you good,” Pen’s friend said …; “I don’t know anything more wholesome for a man—for an honest man, mind you—for another, the medicine loses its effect—than a state of tick. …"
- 1915, William Campbell, Sketches from Formosa‎^[1], Marshall Brothers Limited, page 75:
  The next development showed that so widespread an advertisement of our intention had been given by the town-crier as to speedily furnish us with another illustration of the way in which impecuniosity and good clean Mexican dollars prove a wonderful solvent for many troubles which arise among the Chinese ; because we were agreeably surprised on the evening of the fourth day, when a man came cautiously to inform us that he was willing to sell us his house, if the purchase-money could be handed over at once.

the state of being impecunious