different between hidebound vs illiberality
hidebound
English
Alternative forms
- hide-bound (less common)
Etymology
hide (“animal skin”, noun) +? bound (“tied”, adjective)
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?ha?d.ba?nd/
Adjective
hidebound (comparative more hidebound, superlative most hidebound)
- Bound with the hide of an animal.
- (of a domestic animal) Having the skin adhering so closely to the ribs and back as not to be easily loosened or raised; emaciated.
- (of trees) Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth.
- (of a person) Stubborn; narrow-minded; inflexible.
- (obsolete) Niggardly; penurious; stingy.
- 1644-1646, Francis Quarles, Boanerges and Barnabas
- hath my purse been hidebound to my hungry brother?
- 1644-1646, Francis Quarles, Boanerges and Barnabas
Translations
See also
- leatherbound
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illiberality
English
Etymology
From illiberal +? -ity.
Noun
illiberality (countable and uncountable, plural illiberalities)
- (uncountable) The condition of being illiberal
- (countable) An illiberal word or action
Translations
illiberality From the web:
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- what does illiberality
- what is the meaning of liberality
- definition liberality
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