niggardise en · NOUN
Etymology
From niggard + -ise.
Meanings
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(obsolete, uncountable) Niggardliness.
“For he, whose daies in wilfull woe are worne, / The grace of his Creator doth despise, / That will not use his gifts for thanklesse nigardise.”
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC: