The noun EXPENSE has 3 senses: 1. amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures). 2. a detriment or sacrifice. 3. money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer. Familiarity information: EXPENSE used as a noun is uncommon.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Prurience. prÅÅâ²ri-ens, n. state of being prurient: eager desireâalso Pruâ²riency.âadj. Pruâ²rient, itching or uneasy with desire: given to unclean thoughts.âadv.
Source/Notes: Variant: Permanence, persistence is the first condition of all fruitfulness in the ways of men. The 'tendency to persevere,' to persist in spite of hindrances, discouragements and ' impossibilities:' it is this that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.. From: Past and Present (1843), Book IV: Horoscope, Permanence. Facebook.