Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for EX-PENS'IVE-NESS
EX-PENS'IVE-NESS, n.
- Costliness; the quality of incurring or requiring great expenditures of money. The expensiveness of war is not its greatest evil.
- Addictedness to expense; extravagance; applied to persons.
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