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savingness - What does it mean?

Definition of 'savingness'

English

Noun

(-)
  • 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.
  • (Johnson)
    (Webster 1913)