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costliness

NOUN
  1. the quality possessed by something with a great price or value

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  • In particular, he illustrates the costliness of hard bargaining if such bargaining leads to delays in exploiting this resource.
  • Unsatisfied with off-the-rack roman shades — too dinky and un-luxe — and horrified by custom curtain costliness, I noticed the industrial roller shade, an undervalued player on the scene. It
  • Although these specimens of antique jewelry set with emeralds may be numbered by the score or more in the museums and "reliquaries" of Europe, but very few engraved emeralds have descended to us from ancient times: This rarity is not due to the hardness of the stone, for the ancient lapidaries cut the difficult and still harder sapphire: therefore we must believe the statement of the early gem-writers that the emerald was exempted from the glyptic art by common consent on account of its beauty and costliness. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873
  • Arousing much comment and curiosity was the costliness of the ball and more importantly, what the new First Lady was to wear. The Presidential Inauguration | Edwardian Promenade
  • Future medicines can reduce the costliness and pain of diseases such as Alzheimer's and cancer, for which there are many promising research leads. Will Washington Find the Cure for Cancer?
  • a Puritan chronicler, whose book _The Anatomy of Abuses_ is a valuable aid to the study of Tudor social history, and Harrison, whose description of England prefaces Holinshed's Chronicles, both deal in detail with the Italian menace, and condemn in good set terms the costliness in dress and the looseness in morals which they laid to its charge. English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge
  • I have to agree about the costliness of shooting premium bullets. How Many Groups is Enough?
  • Javier Hernández was the bargain buy of last season but this week his value to Manchester United could be demonstrated by the costliness of his absence. Javier Hernández's injury against Aston Villa tests Manchester United
  • The goals of this program are to limit the frequency, severity and costliness of asthma exacerbations through extensive education of physicians, children and caregivers.
  • By the early 1900s, the Rolls Royce quickly outpaced its competitors as the motorcar for the wealthy and sophisticated – no doubt because of its costliness (the average price of a car in chassis form was around £650 and the Silver Ghost cost ₤1,154!) – and the series of motor trials which convinced those who took up the automobile for sporting purposes that the Rolls Royce was reliable, looked good and drove fast. The Spirit of Ecstasy | Edwardian Promenade
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