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English
Etymology
From strait-handed + -ness.
Noun
strait-handedness (uncountable)
- (archaic) The quality of being strait-handed; greed; stinginess.
1702, Cotton Mather, “).] The Necessity of Reformation, with the Expedients Subservient thereunto, Asserted, in Answer to Two Questions.”, in Magnalia Christi Americana: Or, the Ecclesiastical History of New-England, from Its First Planting in the Year 1620. unto the Year of Our Lord, 1698. , London: Thomas Parkhurst, , →OCLC, 4th part (The Reforming Synod of New-England, ), question II, page 93, column 1: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.
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.
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