frugality
English
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Middle French frugalité.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]frugality (countable and uncountable, plural frugalities)
- The quality of being frugal; prudent economy.
- Near-synonyms: (usually admirable) economy, thrift, thriftiness, parsimony; (excessive degree) tightness, stinginess; (extreme degree) miserliness; see also Thesaurus:frugal, Thesaurus:stingy
- 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 47:
- Your sense of honour and honesty would have led you, I know, when aware of your situation, to attempt all the economy that would appear to you possible; and, perhaps, as long as your frugality retrenched only on your own comfort, you might have been suffered to practice it, but beyond that—
- 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 14:
- With the frugality that hard graft begets, his mate limited both his and her own tobacco, so he must not smoke all afternoon.
- A sparing use; sparingness.
Translations
[edit]quality of being frugal; prudent economy; thrift
References
[edit]- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “frugality”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “frugality”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.