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

Prodigality sought for a nurse at her leisure, And consign'd the fair imp to be dandled by pleasure, Hence some have mistaken this child for another, Amusement—no kin, but a mere foster brother.

From A Season at Harrogate by Hofland, Mrs. (Barbara)

I pray thee, tell me is this brave Prodigality, So full of money as he is said to be?

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Hazlitt, William Carew

Therefore charge her, in the name of Prodigality, That he be restor'd to me incontinently, Lest she repent it— VAN.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Hazlitt, William Carew

Prodigality is less sinful than avarice, because it is less removed from liberality, less harmful to self and others, and less difficult to cure.

From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Callan, Charles Jerome