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parsimony, n.: OED Word of the Day
published on 2009
Today's word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl.) (1871) III. 35 Ligurgus {ygh}afe lawes..movenge that parcimony [L. parsimoniam] scholde be hade of alle men, leste the labore of cheuallry scholde faile thro plente.