frugality
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French frugalité.
Pronunciation
Noun
frugality (countable and uncountable, plural frugalities)
- The quality of being frugal; prudent economy; thrift.
- 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 47:
- Your sense of honour and honesty would have led you, I know, when aware of your situation, to attempt all the economy that would appear to you possible; and, perhaps, as long as your frugality retrenched only on your own comfort, you might have been suffered to practice it, but beyond that—
- 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 14:
- With the frugality that hard graft begets, his mate limited both his and her own tobacco, so he must not smoke all afternoon.
- A sparing use; sparingness.
Synonyms
- frugalness (less common variant)
- parsimony
- thriftiness
Translations
quality of being frugal; prudent economy; thrift
References
- “frugality”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “frugality”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.