Sheppard Lee Glossary

by Robert Montgomery Bird

Sheppard Lee Glossary

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Parsimony

Being stingy or skimpy

Mammon

False worship and devotion

Propitiate

Regaining God’s favor

Votary

A monk or nun

Quondam

Former or belonging to the past

Amiableness

Agreeableness

Saturnine

Gloomy

Profligacy

Wastefulness or recklessness

Retribution

Punishment given to a criminal as vengeance

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