- a word derived from pecuniary.
Example Sentences
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It is unnecessary to say that Mr. Morgan was agreeably surprised, and the gallant rescuer being socially and pecuniarily his peer, young, and distinguished-looking, he began to look upon him as a possible son-in-law.
The second edition, which has not, pecuniarily speaking, a tenth part of the value, has 37 lines to the page, and the misprints are corrected.
From Book Collecting: A Guide for Amateurs by Slater, J. Herbert (John Herbert)
Four years of struggling had not paid pecuniarily.
From Famous American Statesmen by Bolton, Sarah Knowles
Newton was also troubled pecuniarily at this time, and asked to be excused from the weekly payments to the Royal Society, thereby resigning his membership.
From Famous Men of Science by Bolton, Sarah K.
This business was pecuniarily profitable to himself as well as very serviceable to the Union army.
From Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. by Pittenger, William
