Definition of Parsimonies

1. parsimony [n] - See also: parsimony

Lexicographical Neighbors of Parsimonies

pars vertebralis faciei costalis pulmonis
pars vestibularis nervi vestibulocochlearis
parsa
parsability
parsable
parse
parseability
parseable
parsec
parsecs
parsed
parser
parsers
parses
parsettensite
parsimonies (current term)
parsimonious
parsimoniously
parsimoniousness
parsimony
parsing
parsings
parsley
parsley-leaved thorn
parsley frog
parsley haw
parsleyed
parsleys
parslied
parsnep

Literary usage of Parsimonies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1863)
"While the intrigues, the duplicities, we fear mendacities, the injustices and ingratitudes, the parsimonies, ..."

2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1889)
"Nay, even the lex parsimonies, nature's thrifty habits, preclude the hope of a simultaneous excessive development of mental and physical vigor. ..."

3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1863)
"While the intrigues, the duplicities, we fear mendacities, the injustices and ingratitudes, the parsimonies, ..."

4. The Bookman (1906)
"Intellectual discipline may accrue from ground-grinding and all the parsimonies of philology; and, in fact, the elaborate grammatical harmonies of the ..."

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