单词 | impecuniosity |
释义 | impecuniosityn. The quality or condition of being impecunious; lack of money. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > lack of money pence-lackc1400 a short purse1548 disability1624 low tide1699 embarrassment1727 impecuniosity1818 soldier's thigh1841 pennilessness1852 hard-uppishness1859 hard-upness1869 ooflessness1889 1818 W. Scott Let. 7 Dec. (1933) V. 261 A certain degree of impecuniosity a necessity of saving cheese parings and candle ends. 1849 W. Irving Oliver Goldsmith (rev. ed.) xxv. 222 Hiffernan..elevated the emptiness of his purse into the dignity of a disease, which he termed impecuniosity. 1879 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 3rd Ser. 7 He [sc. Massinger], like most of his brethren, suffered grievously from impecuniosity. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1818 |
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