Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being uncostly.
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- noun The state or quality of being low in
cost
Etymologies
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un- + costliness
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Examples
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It must be admitted, however, that utilitarian writers in general have placed the superiority of mental over bodily pleasures chiefly in the greater permanency, safety, uncostliness, etc., of the former -- that is, in their circumstantial advantages rather than in their intrinsic nature.
Utilitarianism 1901
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It must be admitted, however, that utilitarian writers in general have placed the superiority of mental over bodily pleasures chiefly in the greater permanency, safety, uncostliness, &c., of the former -- that is, in their circumstantial advantages rather than in their intrinsic nature.
Utilitarianism John Stuart Mill 1839
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