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Savingness   Listen
noun
Savingness  n.  
1.
The quality of being saving; carefulness not to expend money uselessly; frugality; parsimony.
2.
Tendency to promote salvation.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... less individual. The resemblance to Hood cannot be missed, and though I believe there is some dispute as to which of the two poets actually hit upon the particular style first, there can be little doubt that Hood attained to the greater excellence in it. The real sense and savingness of that doctrine of the "principal and most excellent things," which has sometimes been preached rather corruptly and narrowly, is that the best things that a man does are those that ...
— Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 • George Saintsbury



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