English

Alternative forms

• straithandedness

Noun

strait-handedness ‎(uncountable)

1. (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.