Hypertext Webster Gateway: "costiveness"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Costiveness \Cos"tive*ness\, n.
1. An unnatural retention of the fecal matter of the bowels;
constipation.
2. Inability to express one's self; stiffness. [Obs.]
A reverend disputant of the same costiveness in
public elocution with myself. --Wakefield.
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