savingness
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editsavingness (uncountable)
- 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 […]
- Tendency to promote religious salvation.
References
edit“savingness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.