Savingness

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 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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