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Look up: Miser

  1. miser
    person who loves wealth and spends little 
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  2. miser
    Latin, meaning: wretched, unfortunate, miserable.
    Found on http://archives.nd.edu/mmm.htm

  3. miser
    [n] - a stingy hoarder of money and possessions (often living miserably)
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  4. Miser
    Mi'ser (mī'zẽr) noun [ Latin miser wretched, miserable; confer Greek mi^sos hate, misei^n to hate: confer Italian & Spanish misero wretched, avaricious.] 1. A wretched person; a person afflicted ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/M/76

  5. miser
    noun a stingy hoarder of money and possessions (often living miserably)
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  6. Miser
    • (n.) A covetous, grasping, mean person; esp., one having wealth, who lives miserably for the sake of saving and increasing his hoard. • (n.) A wretched person; a person afflicted by any great misfortune. • (n.) A kind of large earth auger. • (n.) A despicable person; a wretch.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  7. miser
    miser 1. Originally, a wretched person. 2. A stingy person. 3. From Latin miser, 'wretched, miserable, pitiable'; so, this word is not derived from the Greek miso- (hate) element despite the similarity in form.
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  8. Miser
    A `miser`, `cheapskate`, `curmudgeon`, `penny pincher`, `piker`, `scrooge`, `skinflint` or `tightwad` is a person who is reluctant to spend money, sometimes to the point of forgoing even basic comforts and some necessities. Old people were commonly thought to be miserly but this stereotype is less c...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miser

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11 February 2012

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On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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