The Collaborative International Dictionary
Costiveness \Cos"tive*ness\, n.
An unnatural retention of the fecal matter of the bowels; constipation.
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Inability to express one's self; stiffness. [Obs.]
A reverend disputant of the same costiveness in public elocution with myself.
--Wakefield.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The state or quality of being costive; constipation. 2 (context obsolete English) Inability to express oneself; stiffness.
Usage examples of "costiveness".
Costiveness of body afflicts no one but the person concerned: Costiveness of mind afflicts everybody with whom the sufferer comes in contact.
He sat long partly because of a costiveness that seven Gringe tablets had so far done nothing to ease.
God has seen fit to subject chickens to the most loathsome diseases in the world—pip, gapes, costiveness, diarrhea, distemper, asthma, catarrh, apoplexy, cholera, lime legs, canker and many others.
But then again, he said (his mind changing direction), there was the physical aspect to be considered: if costiveness could affect a man's courage, how much more might an adverse phase of the moon affect a woman's?
Of the grossest self-induced costiveness it has ever been my privilege to see, caused by a frantic indulgence in Peruvian bark - self-administered Peruvian bark.