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English
Etymology
From miserly + -ness.
Noun
miserliness (usually uncountable, plural miserlinesses)
- The property of being miserly.
1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 195:Even his amazing miserliness was passed over acceptedly, for of such are the kingdom of shepherd millionaires.
1956, W. John Morgan, The Small World, London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, page 114:There were enough people in the room who wouldn’t mind seeing Beaufort-Holmes hurt to make the chorus a full and, to the uninitiated ear, good-humoured one. His colleagues wouldn’t mind because of his faith that he was a don, they lecturers or worse, and because of remembered miserlinesses.
Synonyms
Translations
property of being miserly