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
It is recorded that Queen Elizabeth, in 1601, then an old woman, witnessed one of these plays, entitled "The Contention between Liberality and Prodigality."
From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Coppee, Henry
Prodigality, the natural tendency of, both to the individual and to the public, 138.
From An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Garnier, Germain
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
Prodigality destroys goods which either were capital or might have become capital.
From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Roscher, Wilhelm
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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