strait-handedness

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The quality of being strait-handed; greed; stinginess. archaic,uncountable
    — 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.

词形变化

straithandedness alternative

词源

From strait-handed + -ness.
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