strait-handedness

See also: straithandedness

English

Etymology

From strait-handed +‎ -ness.

Noun

strait-handedness (uncountable)

1. (archaic) The quality of being strait-handed; greed; stinginess.
   • 1702, Cotton Mather, “[Book V (Acts and Monuments. […]).] The Necessity of Reformation, with the Expedients Subservient thereunto, Asserted, in Answer to Two Questions.”, in Magnalia Christi Americana: Or, the Ecclesiastical History of New-England, from Its First Planting in the Year 1620. unto the Year of Our Lord, 1698. […], London: […] Thomas Parkhurst, […], →OCLC, 4th part (The Reforming Synod of New-England, […]), question II, page 93, column 1:

     But in Ezra’s and Nehemiah’s Time, too much Senſuality and Sabbath-breaking, Oppreſſion, Strait-handedneſs reſpecting the publick VVorſhip of God (the very ſame Sins that are found vvith us) vvere 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.

Alternative forms

• straithandedness