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PECUNIARY
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Relating to or involving money
Example:
he received thanks but no pecuniary compensation for his services
Synonyms:
monetary; pecuniary
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
money (the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender)
Context examples:
He gave us to understand that in our children we lived again, and that, under the pressure of pecuniary difficulties, any accession to their number was doubly welcome.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It is not an avocation of a remunerative description—in other words, it does not pay—and some temporary embarrassments of a pecuniary nature have been the consequence.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Have you posts of profitable pecuniary emolument?
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Need I say, that it soon became necessary for me to solicit from—HEEP—pecuniary advances towards the support of Mrs. Micawber, and our blighted but rising family?
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
That Mr. W. has been for years deluded and plundered, in every conceivable manner, to the pecuniary aggrandisement of the avaricious, false, and grasping—HEEP.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
To leave this metropolis, said Mr. Micawber, and my friend Mr. Thomas Traddles, without acquitting myself of the pecuniary part of this obligation, would weigh upon my mind to an insupportable extent.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The victim, from my cradle, of pecuniary liabilities to which I have been unable to respond, I have ever been the sport and toy of debasing circumstances.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
With respect to the pecuniary assistance enabling us to launch our frail canoe on the ocean of enterprise, I have reconsidered that important business-point; and would beg to propose my notes of hand—drawn, it is needless to stipulate, on stamps of the amounts respectively required by the various Acts of Parliament applying to such securities—at eighteen, twenty-four, and thirty months.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Now, I may be wrong in my conclusions; it is very likely that I am, but my individual impression is, that the gulf between my family and Mr. Micawber may be traced to an apprehension, on the part of my family, that Mr. Micawber would require pecuniary accommodation.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Nothing has, as yet, turned up; and it may not surprise you, my dear Master Copperfield, so much as it would a stranger, to know that we are at present waiting for a remittance from London, to discharge our pecuniary obligations at this hotel.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
