niggardry
nounEtymology From niggard + -ry.
1
Obsolete Niggardliness.
- 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.1888, William Morris, A tale of the house of the Wolfings:
- 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.1915, The Theosophical Path: Illustrated Monthly, volume 8, page 166: