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cost

/kɔst/ noun A2
  1. Quality; condition; property; value; worth; a wont or habit; disposition; nature; kind; characteristic.

Plural costs

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Charlie Sloane’s slate pencil, gorgeously bedizened with striped red and yellow paper, costing two cents where ordinary pencils cost only one, which he sent up to her after dinner hour, met with a more favorable reception.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 128 · C1
Anne did remember it and was back in the stipulated time, although probably no mortal will ever know just what it cost her to confine the discussion of Diana’s important communication within the limits of ten minutes.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 144 · C1
It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it cost them two and thirty pounds.”
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 17 · B2
It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly filled a shelf with my writings.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 14 · B2

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