strait-handedness
See also: straithandedness
English
Alternative forms
- straithandedness
Etymology
strait-handed + -ness
Noun
strait-handedness (uncountable)
- (archaic) The quality of being strait-handed; greed; stinginess.
- 1702, Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana: Or the Ecclesiastical History of New England, page 93:
- But in Ezra's and Nehemiah's Time, too much Sensuality and Sabbath-breaking, Oppression, Strait-handedness respecting the publick Worship of God (the very same Sins that are found with us) were common prevailing Iniquities.
- 1893, Williston Walker, The Creeds and Platforms of Congregationalism, page 431:
- It is also evident that men are under the prevailing power of a worldly spirit, by their strait-handedness as to publick concernments.
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