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Stinting   Listen
verb
Stint  v. t.  (past & past part. stinted; pres. part. stinting)  
1.
To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to restrain; to restrict to a scant allowance. "I shall not go about to extenuate the latitude of the curse upon the earth, or stint it only to the production of weeds." "She stints them in their meals."
2.
To put an end to; to stop. (Obs.)
3.
To assign a certain (i. e., limited) task to (a person), upon the performance of which one is excused from further labor for the day or for a certain time; to stent.
4.
To serve successfully; to get with foal; said of mares. "The majority of maiden mares will become stinted while at work."



Stint  v. i.  To stop; to cease. (Archaic) "They can not stint till no thing be left." "And stint thou too, I pray thee." "The damsel stinted in her song."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Stinting" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the new republic had become the prey of political groups, headed by men who coveted the presidency chiefly impelled by a "vaulting ambition" which, in most cases "overleapt itself." Madame Calderon drew faithful portraits of many of the politicians of those days, not stinting her praise to such men of honour as Bustamante, nor hiding her sympathy towards the much reviled ...
— Life in Mexico • Frances Calderon de la Barca

... the drawing-room, and got fairly through the muslin-barrier in the doorway, which made the staircase look as if in a fog, we found the appearance within very gratifying—everything well out of the way, and no stinting of wax-lights:—altogether exhibiting a clearer stage than is often to be met with—some antique people inviting you to polk in an old curiosity shop;—as, the other evening, at the Dowager Lady Oldbuck's, young Whisk, of the Heavies, brought down a buhl table, covered with porcelain gimcracks; ...
— Christmas Comes but Once A Year - Showing What Mr. Brown Did, Thought, and Intended to Do, - during that Festive Season. • Luke Limner



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