frugality

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French frugalité.

noun

1. The quality of being frugal; prudent economy; thrift.
   Your sense of honour and honesty would have led you, I know, when aware of your situation, to attempt all the economy that would appear to you possible; and, perhaps, as long as your frugality retrenched only on your own comfort, you might have been suffered to practice it, but beyond that 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 47
   With the frugality that hard graft begets, his mate limited both his and her own tobacco, so he must not smoke all afternoon. 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 14
2. A sparing use; sparingness.