PECUNIARY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pecuniary mean? 

• PECUNIARY (adjective)
  The adjective PECUNIARY has 1 sense:

1. relating to or involving money

  Familiarity information: PECUNIARY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PECUNIARY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or involving money

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

monetary; pecuniary

Context example:

he received thanks but no pecuniary compensation for his services

Pertainym:

money (the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender)

 Context examples 

“I have no scruple in saying, in the presence of our friends here, that I am a man who has, for some years, contended against the pressure of pecuniary difficulties.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He would then have suffered under the pecuniary distresses which, because they are removed, he now reckons as nothing.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Whether they received any pecuniary reward for pleading, or delivering their opinions?

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

"Little niggard!" said he, "refusing me a pecuniary request! Give me five pounds, Jane."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Of a very considerable fortune, his son was, by marriage settlements, eventually secure; his present income was an income of independence and comfort, and under every pecuniary view, it was a match beyond the claims of their daughter.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The necessity of the measure in a pecuniary light, and the hope of its utility to his son, reconciled Sir Thomas to the effort of quitting the rest of his family, and of leaving his daughters to the direction of others at their present most interesting time of life.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I next drew up that will to which you so much objected; so that if anything befell me in the person of Dr. Jekyll, I could enter on that of Edward Hyde without pecuniary loss.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

In confirmation of this, she related the particulars of all the pecuniary transactions in which they had been connected, without actually naming her authority, but stating it to be such as might be relied on.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Allow me to say that I fully defer to the reasonable character of that inquiry, and proceed to develop it; premising that it is not an object of a pecuniary nature.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

His own father did not long survive mine, and within half a year from these events, Mr. Wickham wrote to inform me that, having finally resolved against taking orders, he hoped I should not think it unreasonable for him to expect some more immediate pecuniary advantage, in lieu of the preferment, by which he could not be benefited.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)