A miser is someone who is infatuated with the past, and is grumpy about the present, (compared to depressive, or someone who is infatuated with the future, and depressed about the present), so when did it come to mean someone who is a cheapskate and stingy over money?
Yes. But where did you see this? what gave you that definition?
Some vague memory is not valid.
youve had your question answered. why are you arguing?
The basis of your premise is factually wrong.
just because ‘the definition for miser somehow, and some when, changed from “grumpy person who lives in the past”, to “someone stingy over money and is cheapskate”’ is not mentioned elsewhere, does not make it false.
i give up. you cant cite any place that has ever given that definition. live your life thinking some random word changed definitions. live your life using the word incorrectly.
good luck.
I’ve lived in the US since my birth here in 1991. I have never heard the definition you are claiming.
Etymology is the history of words. Here is a page about “miser”: https://www.etymonline.com/word/miser