straithandedness
See also: strait-handedness
English
Noun
straithandedness (uncountable)
- Alternative form of strait-handedness
- 1833, George Burder & Joseph Hughes, An Exposition of the Old and New Testaments:
- Especially to see them live in love and unity, and mutual good affection; no jars or quarrels among them, no strangeness, no shyness one of another, no straithandedness; but, though every one knew his own, they lived with as much freedom as if they had had all in common.
- 1863, Joseph Hall & Philip Wynter, Works - Volume 7, page 376:
- The Romish doctrine makes their straithandedness so much more injurious, as the cause of separation is more just.
- 1900, Massachusetts Historical Society, Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, page 359:
- 4. one of ye great sins of N. E. is a noli me tangere, to E. straithandedness towards ministry e ye ordinances of God.
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