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impecuniosity en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The state of being impecunious; impecuniousness
   • The next development showed that so widespread an advertisement of our intention had been given by the town-crier as to speedily furnish us with another illustration of the way in which impecuniosity and good clean Mexican dollars prove a wonderful solvent for many troubles which arise among the Chinese ; because we were agreeably surprised on the evening of the fourth day, when a man came cautiously to inform us that he was willing to sell us his house, if the purchase-money could be handed over at once. 1915, William Campbell, Sketches from Formosa, Marshall Brothers Limited, page 75:
   • Of all that impecunious community, Limpet's impecuniosity had almost reached the dignity of being proverbial. 1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 153:
   • “Impecuniosity will do you good,” Pen’s friend said …; “I don’t know anything more wholesome for a man—for an honest man, mind you—for another, the medicine loses its effect—than a state of tick. …" 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 32, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

Forms

Translations (8)

pl bieda (the state of being impecunious) · bg сиромаши́я (the state of being impecunious) · pl niezamożność (the state of being impecunious) · tr parasızlık (the state of being impecunious) · gv neuargidaght (the state of being impecunious) · fr impécuniosité (the state of being impecunious) · pl ubóstwo (the state of being impecunious) · gv anverçhaght (the state of being impecunious)