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stint

Archaic Terms
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

To limit, restrict, or constrain in amount or degree; to be frugal or sparing; also a period of time spent doing a particular activity or job.

Detailed Definition
As verb, “stint” implies frugality—stinting charity; as noun, a shift. In poetry, both appear: stinted praise, work stint. The duality enriches social commentary. Poets use it to explore how limitation shapes experience, where stints mark duty or deprivation, reinforcing themes of economy, labor, and the ethics of measure in descriptive and didactic contexts.
Example
Example in poetry:
“She would not stint her love,” in a generous affirmation; In Spenser: “Stint not thy praise of virtue”; “The miser stinted even bread”; “Stint thy words, not thy deeds”; “The spring stinted not its flowers”; The poet stinted neither ink nor heart.
Additional Notes
“Stint” as verb means to restrain (“stint not thy praise”); as noun, it denotes a work shift or allotted time—useful in labor poetry or meditations on mortality (“life’s brief stint”), framing limits as both practical and existential.
Also Known As
limit restrain cease
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