strait-handedness

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.51 in modern English

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noun

Archaic; Uncountable

"But in Ezra’s and Nehemiah’s Time, too much Senſuality and Sabbath-breaking, Oppreſſion, Strait-handedneſs reſpecting the publick VVorſhip of God (the very ſame Sins that are found vvith us) vvere common prevailing Iniquities."
"It is also evident that men are under the prevailing power of a worldly spirit, by their strait-handedness as to publick concernments."

From strait-handed + -ness.

straithandedness (alternative)

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