pecuniary
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He had always feared that an alliance based on a footing that was so openly "pecuniary,"--he declared that the word pecuniary expressed his meaning better than any other epithet,--could not lead to matrimonial happiness.
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- adjective Of or relating to money: a pecuniary loss; pecuniary motives.
- adjective Requiring payment of money: a pecuniary offense.
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- I never before took in so fully the grand idea of pecuniary independence. — The Life and Work of Susan B Anthony 01
- As Mrs. Elmy's share of the estate would come to her children, and as the unmarried sister died not long after, leaving her portion in the same direction, Crabbe's anxiety for the pecuniary future of his family was at an end. — Crabbe
- As for the results of the Book, I can rationally promise myself, on the economical, pecuniary, or otherwise worldly side, simply zero. — The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
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He had always feared that an alliance based on a footing that was so openly "pecuniary,"--he declared that the word pecuniary expressed his meaning better than any other epithet,--could not lead to matrimonial happiness.
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He had always feared that an alliance based on a footing that was so openly "pecuniary," -- he declared that the word pecuniary expressed his meaning better than any other epithet, -- could not lead to matrimonial happiness.
— The Eustace Diamonds
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- Latin pecūniārius, from pecūnia, property, wealth; see peku- in Indo-European roots.
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/ (pĭ-kyo͞oˈnē-ĕrˌē)/
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