| 释义 | ▪ I. ˈstinting, vbl. n.
[f. stint v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the verb stint in various senses; † stopping, ceasing, coming or bringing to an end (obs.); limiting, apportioning within limits; undue limitation, scant supply.
1338R. Brunne Chron. (1725) 1 Had þei no styntyng, bot þorgh alle þei ran. 1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 7016 Right swa þe devels salle ay dyng On þe synfulle, with-outen styntyng. c1420Prymer (MS. Douce 275 lf. 6 b), To thee cherubyn and ceraphin crien with voice with outen stentinge. c1470Henry Wallace vi. 46 And thus began the styntyn off this stryff. 1508Dunbar Flyting 5 Bot had thay maid of mannace ony mynting In speciall, sic stryfe sould ryse but stynting. 1656Bramhall Replic. 37 They have no Liturgy at all, but account it a stinting of the Spirit. a1692H. Pollexfen Disc. Trade (1697) 59 It may occasion prejudicial Retaliations,..and if too much Practised, may prove a Stinting of Trade. 1839Thackeray Fatal Boots Feb., I always was fond of good wine..and, by Jupiter! on this night I had my little skinful,—for there was no stinting. 1907Macm. Mag. Jan. 235 There is absolutely no stinting of vivid impressions on first treading Indian soil.
†b. stinting of the sun = solstice. Obs.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 327 In þe somer tyme aboute þe styntynge of þe sonne.
2. concr. (See quot. 1889.)
1641[see stintage 1]. 1669North Riding Rec. IV. 169 That is to say, two lands and one gaire, part thereof lying on the west stintinge of the Wetlands of Thirske. 1889N.W. Linc. Gloss., Stinting, a portion of the common meadow set apart for the use of one person... In an Amcotts rental of the sixteenth century, I have met with a place called the ‘upper stinting’.
▪ II. ˈstinting, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
That stints.
1867Morn. Star 12 Mar., The..dilution..requires to be added with a stinting hand.
Hence ˈstintingly adv.
1857Geo. Eliot Scenes Clerical Life (1858) II. 176 He often ate his dinner stintingly, oppressed by the thought that there were men, women, and children, with no dinner to sit down to. |
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