niggardise

English

Etymology

From niggard +‎ -ise.

Noun

niggardise (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Niggardliness. [16th–19th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     “For he, whose daies in wilfull woe are worne, / The grace of his Creator doth despise, / That will not use his gifts for thanklesse nigardise.”