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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FRUGAL'ITY, n.
1. Prudent economy; good husbandry or housewifery; a sparing use or appropriation of money or commodities; a judicious use of any thing to be expended or employed; that careful management of money or goods which expends nothing unnecessarily, and applies what is used to a profitable purpose; that use in which nothing is wasted. It is not equivalent to parsimony, the latter being an excess of frugality, and a fault. Frugality is always a virtue. Nor is it synonymous with thrift, in its proper sense; for thrift is the effect of frugality.
Without frugality none can become rich, and with it few would be poor.
2. A prudent and sparing use or appropriation of any thing; as frugality of praise.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: prudence in avoiding waste [syn: frugality, frugalness]

Merriam Webster's

noun see frugal

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Frugality Fru*gal"i*ty, n.; pl. Frugalities. [L. frugalitas: cf. F. frugalit['e].] 1. The quality of being frugal; prudent economy; that careful management of anything valuable which expends nothing unnecessarily, and applies what is used to a profitable purpose; thrift; --- opposed to extravagance. Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits. --Burke. 2. A sparing use; sparingness; as, frugality of praise. Syn: Economy; parsimony. See Economy.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see frugal

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Economy, thrift, thriftiness, good husbandry.

Moby Thesaurus

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