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Meanings of costiveness in English

A condition characterized by infrequent, incomplete or very hard bowel movements.

        Extreme reluctance to spend money.

            Usage of costiveness in English
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            Then his new-born scientific ardor seemed to struggle with his rustic costiveness of speech.
            Robert Elsmere
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            Laudanum every night, and an opening tincture to obviate costiveness.
            An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses / With P...
            3
            A cathartic remedy will palliate the costiveness which frequently follows the use of cathartic remedies.
            Personal Experience of a Physician
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            The same food that agrees perfectly well with one child will frequently cause costiveness in another.
            The Maternal Management of Children, in Health and Disease
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            Feed that tends to costiveness should be avoided.
            Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
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            Costiveness of the bowels, if not counteracted, may end in serious consequences.
            Cattle and Cattle-breeders
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            Costiveness of infants, the means to prevent
            Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children
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            Costiveness, in infancy, 50.
            The Maternal Management of Children, in Health and Disease
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            CONTENTS.-Rulesof Diet for different Constitutions.-Treatmentof the various kinds of Indigestion; of Looseness;-ofCostiveness.-Local Diseases of the Lower Bowel, and their Treatment.
            The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abol...
            Costiveness through the time