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Webster 1913 Edition


Niggardise

Nig′gard-ise

(nĭg′gẽrd-īz)
,
Noun.
Niggardliness.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

Webster 1828 Edition


Niggardise

NIGGARDISE

,
Noun.
Niggardliness. [Not in use.]

Definition 2024


niggardise

niggardise

English

Noun

niggardise (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Niggardliness. [16th-19th c.]
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.8:
      “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.”