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niggardness Now rare.|ˈnɪgədnɪs|
Also 6 Sc. nigar(t)-, nigirt-.
[f. niggard a. + -ness.]
Niggardliness.
1500–20Dunbar Poems xl. 12 Ȝe tak that nigirtness [v.r. nigarnes] of ȝour muder. 1535Coverdale Ecclus. Contents xl, The vnfaithfullnes and nigardnesse of the vngodly. 1562Turner Baths 6 Some for nygardnes or for povertye..eat evell and unholsome meates. 1612Pasquil's Night-cap (1877) 6 A liberall man, and void of niggardnesse. 1764Mem. G. Psalmanazar 182, I have seen so many instances of his nigardness. 1799Robertson Agric. Perth 269 What might..appear..to be a niggardness in nature, or a defect in the bounty of heaven. 1849Rock Ch. of Fathers II. 315 To hinder the niggardness of surviving relatives from cheating the dead out of the Church's services. |