Meaning of spendthrift | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully.
2. Anything that distributes its attributes profusely, without restraint.
   figuratively

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Examples

“[T]hat vve vvould doe / VVe ſhould doe vvhen vve vvould: for this vvould changes, / And hath abatements and delayes as many, / As there are tongues, are hands, are accedents, / And then this ſhould is like⟳ a ſpend thrifts ſigh, / That hurts by eaſing; […]”

“VVell goe too vvild oates, ſpend thrift, prodigall, / Ile croſſe thy name⟳ quite from my reckoning booke: / For theſe accounts, faith it ſhall skathe thee ſomevvhat, / I vvill not ſay vvhat ſomevvhat it ſhall be.”

“Prodigue, & grand beuveur de vin n'a du ſien ne four, ne moulin: Pro. The drunken ſpendthrift vvaſts his beſt poſſeſſions.”

“[T]emperate people choose⟳ neither total abstinence nor perpetual indulgence, but something in between; liberal people are neither spendthrifts nor misers; the properly angry are neither apathetic nor short-tempered; and the strictly just person distributes to everyone what is his or her due, neither more nor less.”

“It was one of those bright days in spring⟳, which are very spendthrifts of sunshine, when the darkest alley in London wins a golden glimpse, and the eternal mist around St. Paul's turns to a glittering haze:...”

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