• Niggardise

    Origin

    From niggard + -ise.

    Full definition of niggardise

    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.”
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