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Meaning of strait-handedness | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

The quality of being strait-handed; greed; stinginess.

archaic, uncountable

Examples

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.”
“It is also evident that men are under the prevailing power of a worldly spirit, by their strait-handedness as to publick concernments.”

CEFR level

C2
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