[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.
1338. R. Brunne, Chron. (1725), 1. Had þei no styntyng, bot þorgh alle þei ran.
c. 1340. Richard Rolle of Hampole, Prick of Conscience, 7016. Right swa þe devels salle ay dyng On þe synfulle, with-outen styntyng.
c. 1420. Prymer (MS. Douce 275 lf. 6 b). To thee cherubyn and ceraphin crien with voice with outen stentinge.
c. 1470. Henry, Wallace, VI. 46. And thus began the styntyn off this stryff.
1508. Dunbar, Flyting, 5. Bot had thay maid of mannace ony mynting In speciall, sic stryfe sould ryse but stynting.
1656. Bramhall, Replic., 37. They have no Liturgy at all, but account it a stinting of the Spirit.
a. 1692. Pollexfen, Disc. Trade (1697), 59. It may occasion prejudicial Retaliations,… and if too much Practised, may prove a Stinting of Trade.
1839. Thackeray, 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.
1907. Alec Holmes, in Macm. Mag., Jan., 235. There is absolutely no stinting of vivid impressions on first treading Indian soil.
† b. Stinting of the sun = SOLSTICE. Obs.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), I. 327. In þe somer tyme aboute þe styntynge of þe sonne.
2. concr. (See quot. 1889.)
1641. [see STINTAGE 1].
1669. North 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.
1889. N. 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.’
