stinting

stinting

1. present participle and gerund of stint

• unstinting

stinting (plural stintings)

1. Act of one who stints.
   • 1848, Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall:

     […] as long as they can contrive to make a respectable appearance once a year, when they come to town, he gives himself little concern about their private stintings and struggles at home.

   • 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 19, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

     There is no such bad policy as stinting a boy—or putting him on a lower allowance than his fellows

• nittings, tintings