niggardise

English

Etymology

From niggard +‎ -ise.

Noun

niggardise (uncountable)

(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.”

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