Savingness
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The quality of being careful not to waste money; frugality; parsimony. uncountable
"Her love of a good dinner herself, and her still keener love of the approbation she won by setting it before others, kept up perpetual warfare with her savingness […]"
- 2 Tendency to promote religious salvation. uncountable
Example
More examples"Her love of a good dinner herself, and her still keener love of the approbation she won by setting it before others, kept up perpetual warfare with her savingness […]"
Etymology
From saving + -ness.
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