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hide-bound
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synonyms: penurious, parsimonious, niggardly, costive ???
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Definition:1. Having the skin adhering so closely to the ribs and back as not to be easily loosened or raised; -- said of an animal.2. (Hort.) Defn: Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth; -- said of trees.3. Untractable; bigoted; obstinately and blindly or stupidly conservative.4. Niggardly; penurious. [Obs.] Quarles.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Michael Portillo: Whilst its imperial court was perhaps the most hide-bound and reactionary in Europe, Vienna had attracted masses of migrants who defied tradition with their new music, art, and ideas.
BBC. Great Continental Railway Journeys: Vienna to Trieste (2015)
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LOVE. We will—
I will be ruled by thee in any thing, Jeremy.
KAS. 'Slight, thou art not hide-bound, thou art a jovy boy!
Come, let us in, I pray thee, and take our whiffs.
Ben Jonson. The Alchemist (1610)
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Oh, I know he's a good fellow—you needn't frown—an excellent fellow, and I always mean to see more of him; but a hide-bound pedant for all that; an ignorant blatant pedant.
Robert Louis Stevenson. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1850)
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Once youth is outgrown, it is seldom that anyone remains hidebound by insolence.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 3]
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