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English
Etymology
From niggard + -ry.
Noun
niggardry (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Niggardliness.
1888, William Morris, A tale of the house of the Wolfings:At least it was from no niggardry that the door was made thus low, as might be seen by the fair and manifold carving of knots and dragons that was wrought above the lintel of the door for some three foot's space.
1915, The Theosophical Path: Illustrated Monthly, volume 8, page 166:Such a doctrine would be orthodox and proper to the great creative ages: which we might hurry back, indeed, by a return to generous conceptions, casting off the niggardry of current theories.