thriftinessn.
/ˈθrɪftɪnɪs/ The state or quality of being thrifty.† 1. Thriving condition, prosperity. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > [noun]
selthc888
healc950
wealOE
goder-heala1225
prosperity?c1225
wealtha1300
statec1300
healtha1325
welfare1357
theedom1362
wealfulnessc1374
bonchiefa1387
felicity1393
boota1400
wella1400
wealsc1400
well-doingc1440
prosperancea1460
happiness?1473
quartfulness1483
brightnessa1500
goodnessa1500
sonsea1500
thriftiness?1529
prosperation1543
well-being1561
prosperousness1600
fair world1641
thrivingness1818
goldenness1829
palminess1875
?1529 Proper Dyaloge Gentillman & Husbandman sig. A v They haue brought the lande to beggery And all thryftynes clene a waye swepte.
2. The quality of being frugal or saving; economy, good husbandry: cf. thrift n.1 3.
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the mind > possession > retaining > sparingness or frugality > [noun] > thrift or economical management
housewifeship?c1225
husbandryc1390
thriftiness1552
thrift?1553
housewifery1557
housewifeliness1561
husbanding1591
mesnagery1653
managery1658
mesnage1667
economy1670
scrimping1835
1552 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Frugalitas..thriftines.
1576 A. Fleming tr. Apollonius in Panoplie Epist. 225 A minde..contented with perseuerance, with frugalitie or thriftinesse.
1645 J. Ussher Body of Divin. (1647) 304 Parsimony or thriftiness; whereby we honestly keep and preserve our goods.
1782 V. Knox Ess. II. lxxxvii. 22 The qualities distinguished by the homely titles of thriftiness and good housewifery.
1826 F. Reynolds in Life & Times II. 83 [He was] a compound of liberality and thriftiness.
1884 J. J. Manley in Brit. Almanac Compan. 65 The actual increase of national thriftiness.
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