Citations:stintance
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English citations of stintance
- c. 1600, The London Prodigal, act I, scene I:
- Nay, I cannot weep you extempore: marry, some two or three days hence I shall weep without any stintance.
- 1897 June, “Solipediana No. XVIII. In Medias Res. The Relation of County Attorney to Local Boards of Health.”, in Iowa Public Health Bulletin[1], volume 9, number 1:
- the Charybdis of poor men who generally are willing but are financially so weak that even small outlays on behalf the public health means a positive stintance of larder and other comforts to each family involved.