"costiveness" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From costive + -ness.",
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          "ref": "January 1822, Richard Reece [editor] \"Letters of a Royal Physician, on Indigestion &c. &c.\", in The Monthly Gazette of Health Volume 7",
          "text": "The new cases prove that in habitual costiveness or inactivity of the bowels, galvanism is a more valuable remedy, and that its effects are permanent ."
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        "The state or quality of being costive; constipation."
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          "ref": "1792, Gilbert Wakefield, Memoirs of the Life of Gilbert Wakefield",
          "text": "a reverend disputant of the same coftiveness in public elocution with myself",
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        "Inability to express oneself; stiffness."
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        "(obsolete) Inability to express oneself; stiffness."
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  "etymology_text": "From costive + -ness.",
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        "The state or quality of being costive; constipation."
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