pecuniosity

English

Noun

pecuniosity (uncountable)

  1. Wealth.
    • 1867, Tresham Gilbey, Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (volume 12, page 66)
      The Duke of A— […] inherits, at one-and-twenty, a very handsome income even for a man in his exalted position of life. […] He is quite acute enough to know […] that he makes his début to a crowd which admires his pecuniosity quite as much as himself.
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