2. Inability to express one's self; stiffness. [Obs.]

A reverend disputant of the same costiveness in public elocution with myself.

Wakefield.

Cost"less (k?st"l?s; 115), a. Costing nothing.

Cost"lewe (-l?), a. Costly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Cost"li*ness (-l?-n?s), n. The quality of being costy; expensiveness; sumptuousness.

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