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penuriousness

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pe·nu·ri·ous  (p-nr-s, -nyr-)
adj.
1. Unwilling to spend money; stingy.
2. Yielding little; barren: a penurious land.
3. Poverty-stricken; destitute.
[From Medieval Latin pnrisus, from Latin pnria, want.]
pe·nuri·ous·ly adv.
pe·nuri·ous·ness n.
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Noun1.penuriousness - a state of lacking money
impecuniousness, pennilessness
impoverishment, poorness, poverty - the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
2.penuriousness - a disposition to be niggardly with money
stinginess - a lack of generosity; a general unwillingness to part with money


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As I endeavored, during the brief minute of my original survey, to form some analysis of the meaning conveyed, there arose confusedly and paradoxically within my mind, the ideas of vast mental power, of caution, of penuriousness, of avarice, of coolness, of malice, of blood thirstiness, of triumph, of merriment, of excessive terror, of intense - of supreme despair.
The Man of the Crowd by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
As I endeavored, during the brief minute of my original survey, to form some analysis of the meaning conveyed, there arose confusedly and paradoxically within my mind, the ideas of vast mental power, of caution, of penuriousness, of avarice, of coolness, of malice, of blood thirstiness, of triumph, of merriment, of excessive terror, of intense - of supreme despair.
Poems by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
Naturally: for when "poor Peter" had occupied his arm-chair in the wainscoted parlor, no assiduous beetles for whom the cook prepares boiling water could have been less welcome on a hearth which they had reasons for preferring, than those persons whose Featherstone blood was ill-nourished, not from penuriousness on their part, but from poverty.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
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