Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
n.) A covetous, grasping, person devoted to saving and hoarding wealth.
2. (n.) A wretched person; a person afflicted by any great misfortune.
3. (n.) A despicable person; a wretch.
4. (n.) A kind of large earth auger.
Library
The Miser
... Book First CLXXXII THE MISER. I saw this day a miser old Receive and count a bag
of gold; ... The Searcher of our hearts will try,. More nicely than the miser's eye. ...
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Whether any True virtue is Possible Without Charity?
... iv, 3), "the prudence of the miser, whereby he devises various roads to gain, is
no true virtue; nor the miser's justice, whereby he scorns the property of ...
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He Desired no Other Riches for his Friends but those which Cannot ...
... And it was his principle?That all the treasures in the whole world would not make
a miser happy, a miser happy. A miser is not only a covetous man but a fool. ...
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Sudden Conversions.
... by his extravagances, went out of doors to meditate on his own folly and misery,
and in the course of a few hours returned home a determined miser, and was for ...
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Whether a Man Can Hate Himself?
... Objection 3: Further, Boethius says (De Consol. ii) that "avarice makes a man
hateful"; whence we may conclude that everyone hates a miser. ...
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Whether Use Regards Also the Last End?
... 1114]Q[1], A[8];[1115] Q[2], A[7]), signifies sometimes the thing itself, and sometimes
the attainment or possession of that thing (thus the miser's end is ...
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Whether Happiness is Something Uncreated?
... First, there is the thing itself which we desire to attain: thus for the
miser, the end is money. Secondly there is the attainment ...
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Demas
... man's wife, gave him no concern whatever. It will be readily conceded that
the miser is a worldly man. He loves gold for its own ...
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Quatenus Plato Aliique E Veteribus Pr??iverint Marcionitis ...
... Deflevi et luxi, insolitum cernens miser orbem. Et amplius:". ... O! miser natus,
malisque obnoxius. Editus, homo, es, vit?? tu??que miserriam. ...
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With the Opening of this ChapterWe Come to Quite a Different Theme ...
... who toils has a distinct advantage over the wealthy, who is denied the quiet repose
the former enjoys." Carefully the Preacher has watched the miser heaping up ...
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Thesaurus
Miser (2 Occurrences)... Multi-Version Concordance
Miser (2 Occurrences). Isaiah 32:5 A fool is no more
called 'noble,' And to a
miser it is not said, 'rich;' (YLT).
.../m/miser.htm - 7kMiserable (11 Occurrences)
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Justly (22 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 32:7 And the miser -- his instruments 'are' evil, He hath counselled wicked
devices, To corrupt the poor with lying sayings, Even when the needy ...
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Misdemeanours (1 Occurrence)
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Miserly (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (a.) Like a miser; very covetous; sordid; stingy.
Multi-Version Concordance Miserly (1 Occurrence). ...
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Churl (6 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) A rough, surly, ill-bred man; a boor. 3. (n.) A selfish miser; an illiberal
person; a miser. 4. (a.) Churlish; rough; selfish. Int. ...
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Counselled (26 Occurrences)
... (YLT). Isaiah 32:7 And the miser -- his instruments 'are' evil, He hath counselled
wicked devices, To corrupt the poor with lying sayings, Even when the needy ...
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Scraping (1 Occurrence)
... 4. (a.) Resembling the act of, or the effect produced by, one who, or that which,
scrapes; as, a scraping noise; a scraping miser. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Corrupt (59 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 32:7 And the miser -- his instruments 'are' evil, He hath counselled wicked
devices, To corrupt the poor with lying sayings, Even when the needy ...
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