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Parsimoniousness

noun
1.
Extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily.  Synonyms: parsimony, penny-pinching, thrift.
2.
Extreme stinginess.  Synonyms: closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, tightfistedness, tightness.





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... Strict even to parsimoniousness in the matter of public expenditures, the pioneers of Iowa were not always puritan in observing the forms of religion. Their liberal attitude and their fearless courage in expressing views on so delicate a subject were displayed ...
— History of the Constitutions of Iowa • Benjamin F. Shambaugh


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