Definition of "miserliness"

Even his amazing miserliness was passed over acceptedly, for of such are the kingdom of shepherd millionaires.

1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 195

There were enough people in the room who wouldn’t mind seeing Beaufort-Holmes hurt to make the chorus a full and, to the uninitiated ear, good-humoured one. His colleagues wouldn’t mind because of his faith that he was a don, they lecturers or worse, and because of remembered miserlinesses.

1956, W. John Morgan, The Small World, London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, page 114