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narrow-souled, a.
[narrow a. 4.]
Lacking in breadth of view or feeling; ungenerous.
1641Milton Animadv. Remonstr. Def. i. Wks. 1851 III. 186 The shallow surview..of some mercenary, narrow souled, and illiterate chaplain. 1691T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. p. iii, A peevish endeavour of some narrow-soul'd Men. 1766Fordyce Serm. Yng. Wom. (1767) II. xii. 201 She was none of those narrow-souled women.
absol.1700Dryden Cymon & Iph. 35 Love..To lib'ral Acts inlarg'd the narrow-Soul'd. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 545 Discovering daily new sources of solacement..which the selfish and narrow-souled never can discern.
b. Mean, stingy. north. dial.
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew s.v. Narrow, A Narrow-soul'd Fellow, poor or Mean-spirited, stingy. 1828Craven Gloss., Narrow-souled, parsimonious, ungenerous. |