[-ING2.] That stints.
1867. Morn. Star, 12 March. The … dilution … requires to be added with a stinting hand.
Hence Stintingly adv.
1839. The Scorpion, 16 July, 3/3. Has anything addled the miserable apology for brains with which nature stintingly supplied you?
1857. Geo. Eliot, Scenes Cler. 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.
