impecuniosity

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English

Noun

impecuniosity (countable and uncountable, plural impecuniosities)

  1. The state of being impecunious; impecuniousness
    • 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.