different between niggardise vs niggardish

English

From niggard +? -ise.

niggardise (uncountable)

(obsolete) Niggardliness. [16th-19th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.8:
  “For he, whose daies in wilfull woe are worne, / The grace of his Creator doth despise, / That will not use his gifts for thanklesse nigardise.”

niggard +? -ish

niggardish (comparative more niggardish, superlative most niggardish)

Somewhat niggardly.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Thomas More to this entry?)

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