stint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɪnt/
rhymes: -ɪnt
Forms: form: stints
form: stinting
form: stinted
form: stinted
Etymology: From Middle English stinten, from Old English styntan (“to make blunt”) and *stintan (attested in āstintan (“to make dull, stint, assuage”)), from Proto-West Germanic *stuntijan, from Proto-Germanic *stuntijaną and Proto-Germanic *stintaną (“to make short”), probably influenced in some senses by cognate Old Norse *stynta, stytta (“to make short, shorten”).
Senses: examples: text: We mon haue payne that neuer shall stynt
ref: 15th c., “[The Creation]”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: […] Oxford University Press, 1897, →OCLC, page 6, line 161:
english: We deamons have pain that shall never cease
translation: We deamons have pain that shall never cease
text: O do thy cruell wrath and spightfull wrong / At length allay, and stint thy stormy strife […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: And stint thou too, I pray thee.
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
text: The damsel stinted in her song.
ref: 1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: anchor
word: astand
word: blin
word: brake
word: cease
word: desist
word: draw up
word: grind to a halt
word: halt
word: hold
word: immobilize
word: leave off
word: rest
word: stall
word: stay
word: stint
word: stop
word: swike
glosses: To stop (an action); cease, desist.
glosses: To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).
examples: text: The next party you throw, don't stint on the beer.
synonyms: skimp
glosses: To be sparing or mean.
examples: text: I shall not in the least go about to extenuate the Latitude of it: or to stint it only to the Produćtion of Weeds, of Thorns, Thisiles, and other the less useful Kinds of Plants
ref: 1695, John Woodward, An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth and Terrestrial Bodies:
text: She stints them in their meals.
ref: 1729, William Law, A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life:
text: Schepisi makes it clear that the outlandish rules, the strict self-discipline, the body hatred, and erotophobia is destructive; it is doing no one any good. But since he is also presenting a (somewhat) loving evocation of his own past, this measure gets soft peddled. Worse, it stints the film's analysis, and by not being totally honest, causes and plays upon some dangerous misunderstanding.
ref: 1982 February 13, Michael Bronski, “Boys from Catholic School”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 29, page 12:
glosses: To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
glosses: To assign a certain task to (a person), upon the performance of which he/she is excused from further labour for that day or period; to stent.
examples: text: The majority of maiden mares will become stinted while at work.
ref: 1861, John Henry Walsh, The Horse, in the Stable and the Field:
glosses: To impregnate successfully; to get with foal.
raw_tags: of mares
Derived terms: unstinting