savingness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

saving +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

savingness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being careful not to waste money; frugality; parsimony.
    • 1885, Helen Hunt Jackson, Zeph: A Posthumous Story:
      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.

References[edit]

“savingness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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