prodigality
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"Prodigality is the spirit of the era," Social Critic Vance Packard declared in The Waste Makers 20 years ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
Why, sure, Prodigality, it can be no other, But he is returned to Fortune his mother.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Hazlitt, William Carew
I answer that, Prodigality considered in itself is a less grievous sin than covetousness, and this for three reasons.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
And I came of purpose to seek Prodigality.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Hazlitt, William Carew
Prodigality and superfluity are stamped on everything she does.”
From The Vagabond in Literature by Rickett, Arthur
Vocabulary lists containing prodigality
The Great Gatsby
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30 GRE Words Beginning with "P"
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Novel Study: The Great Gatsby, Chapters 1–6
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