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- adjective rare Full of expense; costly; chargeable.
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Examples
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"Father's own Son" again, and so it raining very hard I went home by coach, with my mind very heavy for this my expensefull life, which will undo me, I fear, after all my hopes, if I do not take up, for now I am coming to lay out a great deal of money in clothes for my wife, I must forbear other expenses.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 13: November/December 1661 Samuel Pepys 1668
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I went home by coach, with my mind very heavy for this my expensefull life, which will undo me, I fear, after all my hopes, if I do not take up, for now I am coming to lay out a great deal of money in clothes for my wife, I must forbear other expenses.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1661 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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I went home by coach, with my mind very heavy for this my expensefull life, which will undo me, I fear, after all my hopes, if I do not take up, for now I am coming to lay out a great deal of money in clothes for my wife, I must forbear other expenses.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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From thence to the Theatre, and there saw "Father's own Son" again, and so it raining very hard I went home by coach, with my mind very heavy for this my expensefull life, which will undo me, I fear, after all my hopes, if I do not take up, for now I am coming to lay out a great deal of money in clothes for my wife,
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Nov/Dec 1661 Pepys, Samuel 1661
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