niggardyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

niggardy (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Niggardliness.
   • 1922, John McKenzie, Hindu Ethics: A Historical and Critical Essay, page 24:

     Likewise, greatly making thyself naked, thou fastenest on a person in dreams, O niggard, baffling the plan and design of a man.
     Departure from the niggardy is praised : Thou hast left niggardy, hast found what is pleasant; […]

参照

• “niggardy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.